Speaker Name(s): Tom Koulopoulos, Ed Meachen
Description: Organizations of all sizes, in the public and private sectors, are increasingly turning their management focus to innovation. But how do you ensure that innovation efforts are producing business value and growth, leveraging knowledge within the organization, and changing the business processes that need to be changed? Effective management and the application of information technology already has a hard time keeping up with the demands of globalization, cost-cutting, and growth. Revolutionary approaches that promise to reengineer enterprises and reinvent government are embraced despite the enormous human toll they exact. How will industry and government survive in this new age by making better use of tools they have available to manage knowledge, processes and business intelligence? Key topics: * The evolution of the Core-Competency Enterprise * Creating an Innovation-driven Enterprise * Managing the collision of business and technology to create "Smart Companies" * Business intelligence: Innovating from the outside in