March 2012
March 25 - 28, 2012
Smart Thinking for The Smart Enterprise
 Kaihan Krippendorff |
 Andres Carvallo |
 Dr. Michael Nelson |
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Ponte Vedra Inn
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Kaihan Krippendorff - Business Strategist, Expert Blogger and Author of four books including Outhink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore
Andres Carvallo - Smart Grid Master, CIO and Author
Mark Bartolomeo - Vice President -Global Enterprise Sales for Verizon Wireless, the premier wireless provider with the most reliable wireless voice and 3G broadband data network.
Dr. Michael Nelson - Research Associate for The Leading Edge Forum (LEF)
What is The Smart Enterprise?
"The Smart Enterprise" is the 21st century megatrend that reveals why and how the total digitalization of enterprises will deliver a complete new Smart World with virtually unlimited possibility. "The Smart Enterprise" is a non-stop, on-demand, re-design journey of the business models, business processes, technologies, organizational structure, and applied human capital to seamlessly blend existing and new stand-alone silo trends such as, Mass Customization, Open Sourcing, eCommerce, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Mobility, Networking, Lean Manufacturing, Vehicle Electrification, and the new Distributed Generation into a more profitable, faster growing, plentiful, and more customer driven corporate reality.
The Smart Enterprise delivers successes by committing to pervasive performance management, which helps streamline management processes, creating a smart, agile and aligned organization. The Smart Enterprise enables the close monitoring of performance, flexible planning and helps in re-establishing trust with stakeholders. At the same time, The Smart Enterprise drives insight in divestments and investments, and offers techniques that help in rethinking strategies and managing innovation as a competitive advantage.
How does The Smart Enterprise maintain a long-term leadership position, as well as manage today's operations? Understanding the core business, taking action to protect and nurture it, retaining the best talent during tough times and constantly managing innovation are not only strategies for survival, but almost always the very foundation of consistent, sustainable, and continued growth. Organizations will need to look outside themselves and their traditional partners to find new skill sets and capabilities in order to develop The Smart Enterprise.At CSC's March Executive Exchange, we will address these topics. We will openly discuss what companies are doing now and what they plan to do in the future to leverage The Smart Enterprise. We look forward to sharing our insights and hearing your perspectives on this exciting topic.