PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE UPCOMING
CSC EXECUTIVE EXCHANGE
March 14 - 17, 2010
Ponte Vedra Beach Resorts
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Power to the People: The Consumerization of IT
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DISCUSSION LEADERS
RAY KURZWEIL is an inventor and futurist. He has been described as "the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal. Forbes Inc. calls Mr. Kurzweil “the ultimate thinking machine” and ranks him eighth among entrepreneurs in the United States. PBS included him as one of the 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. He is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. Mr. Kurzweil has received 16 honorary doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. He is also the author of five books, four of which have been national best-sellers.
MICHAEL SCHRAGE is a senior advisor to MIT's Security Studies Program. He advises organizations on the economics of innovation through rapid experimentation, simulation, and digital design. Mr. Schrage explores the role of models, prototypes, and simulations as collaborative media for managing innovation and risk. Mr. Schrage teaches and runs workshops on “innovation economics” and new product development at MIT. He is an accomplished author and columnist having written for CIO Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Across the Board, and Strategy+Business. Mr. Schrage"s latest book, Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate, has been translated into over seven languages.
R. LEMUEL LASHER is CSC’s Group President of Global Business Solutions and Services (GBS) and its Chief Innovation Officer. GBS is comprised of CSC’s regional Consulting and Systems Integration business in the Americas, EMEA, ASIAPAC, and the global practices: Business Consulting & Solutions, Technology Consulting, SAP, Oracle, and Program Management & Solutions Architecture. His Chief Innovation Officer corporate responsibilities include managing the Office of Innovation comprised of the following global units: The Leading Edge Forum, The Research Network, Global Solutions Organization, CSC Collective Intelligence, and Knowledge Management & Enablement.
TODAY MORE THAN EVER BEFORE THERE IS A DEFINITE BLURRING OF THE LINES BETWEEN CORPORATE IT AND CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY. IT IS ALLOWING EMPLOYEES TO DRIVE INNOVATION AROUND THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY. Industry analysts are saying consumerization will be the most significant trend affecting IT in the next 10 years. There is a growing practice of introducing new technologies into consumer markets prior to industrial markets. This is spurred by the proliferation of high-end consumer technology such as PDAs, MP3 players, and Smartphones – all of which are dual use devices with applications for both consumers and businesses.
End user devices are not the only technology segment experiencing this phenomenon. As consumer devices have grown in popularity and capability, so have the infrastructures supporting them. These infrastructures and their supporting services are of principal interest to business IT management due to their potential to compete or conflict with existing corporate systems. It is not that one will replace the other; but, that a company needs a process to choose between internally managed infrastructure and increasingly powerful mass-market alternatives.
Consumer IT is impacting every organization. Attempting to deny this influence is foolhardy. So, what are the savvy choices to be made about where and when to enable and support consumer IT deployment? How can you take advantage of this trend and transform your rigid, legacy-ridden infrastructures and systems into agile, efficient, service-driven delivery mechanisms? How can you adopt a pragmatic approach to managing the risk of consumer IT while embracing the benefits?
At CSC’s Power to the People Executive Exchange, we will address these questions and many more. We’ll discuss what companies are doing to effectively adopt consumer-based IT functionality. Join us so you too can learn how to take better advantage of consumer-based innovation. We look forward to sharing our insights and hearing your perspectives on this exciting topic.
For more information on Executive Exchange and how you can become involved, contact your CSC account executive, or call Rosalie Scanlon at 973.243.7509 or Norm Staniford at 214.523.5527.
Presentations:
Ray Kurzweil
Michael Schrage
Ted Plush
Lem Lasher