CIO Insights

What the Business Wants
In our CIO Insight session you’ll have the opportunity to hear how some of Asia-Pacific’s leading organisations are using IT to drive business success. You’ll hear the strategies, initiatives, best practices and key learnings that these CIO’s have experience first hand, with advice and guidance on achieving the business imperatives of your organisation.

• David Backley
• Chief Technology Officer
• Westpac Banking Corporation
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• Tuesday
• 20-Nov
• 17:00 - 18:00
• CIO Insight: Building on 190 Years of Westpac: How
  Emerging Web 2.0 Technologies May Help Re-connect
  Individuals at Work and Play

• Peter Bourke
• Director of Information Technology
• Westfield
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• Thursday
• 22-Nov
• 15:30 – 16:30
• CIO Insight: Differentiating the Business
  through IT – Maximise Profitability and Competitiveness

• Murray Harrison
• CIO
• Australian Customs Service
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• Thursday
• 22-Nov
• 11:00 - 12:00
• CIO Insight: Powering Agility and an Effective Workforce:
  Learnings from the Australian Customs Service Nine Year
  Journey to Multi-Sourcing

• John Sheridan
• Acting Head of Information System Division (HISD)
• Department of Defence
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• Thursday
• 22-Nov
• 13:00 - 14:00
• CIO Insight: Now I Get It! - The Australian Department
  of Defence's Development of an Enterprise Architecture
  Practice from 2000 to 2007

 

• Garry Whatley
• CIO
• Corporate Express
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• Thursday
• 22-Nov
• 8:30 - 9:30
• CIO Insight: Transformation of IT to meet Business Objectives -
  Improve Critical Business Processes and Workflows

Symposium/ITxpo 2007 – Track Description

Business Management of IT (BMIT)
CIOs and business leaders need to learn how to identify and implement complex technology-enabled change. This track will cover IT strategy and governance, transforming the IS organisation, developing your human resources, compliance, security and risk management, and portfolio and performance management to deliver better business outcomes. Create your IT roadmap for future success.

IT Infrastructure & Operations (ITIO)
Keeping the lights on has never been more critical, yet new technologies such as virtualization, network convergence, mobility and security have potential to disrupt operations. Gartner will explore the issues that will shape enterprise infrastructure over the next decade and provide best practices and guidance to plan and budget for the diversity and complexity ahead to deliver cost effective performance.

Information Management (IM)
This track looks across your enterprise in how to manage, optimise, consolidate and reconcile, analyze and use all the information assets you have across you organisation to change/enhance and grow a business. Technologies such as content and document management, search, portals, business intelligence, email and collaboration support are a must-have for a high performance workplace. Learn how to integrate information to improve business performance.

Sourcing & Vendor Management (SVM)
Disciplined multi-sourcing blends internal and external IT services to deliver effective business outcomes. Building the right relationships with the right vendors, negotiating the best procurement deals for the long term, managing IT assets throughout their life cycle, software license strategies are all critical ingredients for success that require new skills. Develop your sourcing strategies now.

Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management (EABPM)
Enterprise architects need to collaborate with business planners to create a technologically sophisticated plan to transform the business across the entire value chain. Demands for process efficiency, productivity, innovation, compliance, security require an architected approach. Gartner will deliver recommendations and best practices that exploit IT to deliver business value.

Application Development, Deployment & Integration (ADDI)
Traditional ERP, CRM and SCM silo thinking is no longer sufficient. The nature of application software is evolving through concepts like service-oriented development, event-driven architecture, application platform suites and web services. Gartner will explain how to apply the methods, practices, technologies and tools to deliver agile business solutions and manage the new applications portfolio.

Emerging Trends & Technologies (ETT)
Outmoded business-IT thinking could stop your enterprise from acquiring new technology-enabled capabilities. Gartner will examine how to harness the disruptive potential of technology advances in a consumer-driven world. Understand what’s on the radar screen, sharpen your senses for what might happen, and learn best practices for emerging technology planning.

Industry Insights (IND)
In the increasingly global environment or in an environment where resources are increasingly constrained, efficiency of production and effective delivery are essential. But they are also subject to forces, such as risk aversion, compliance and regulations, that tend to sustain the status quo. IT can be a formidable force in resolving this contradiction and enabling transformation. Understand how management in these sectors are using IT to power productivity and transformation: Public Sector, Financial Services and Asset intensive industries.

Monday – Go To Market!
Powering Business for Technology and Service Providers
These two tracks feature in a one-day seminar on Monday 19 November, and are aimed specifically at IT Sales and Marketing professionals.

IT Marketing and Channel Strategies
Market disruptions caused by new business and pricing models such as selling technology as a service, and competition coming from unexpected places, are pushing the IT provider marketing and sales functions to reconsider their go-to-market and channel strategies. In this environment of innovation and change it is difficult to sustain traditional strategies, but equally difficult to make a compelling case for radical change. Presentations under this topic will focus on best practices which can be leveraged to ensure marketing strategies are effective and channel programs are developed with scale, consistency and flexibility in mind.

Market Snapshots and Provider Strategies
Building on the macroeconomic keynote, presentations in this track will cut across the major technology segments of hardware, software, IT services and Telecommunications. Based on market size and forecast data, presentations will identify the major drivers, trends, and technologies that will impact the IT business environment, and what technology and service providers should do about them. In addition, we will provide insights into the specific needs and buying behaviors of local and Asia/Pacific SMBs as well as vertical market trends, based on recent Gartner surveys of local purchasing decision makers. Each presentation contains specific recommendations to sales and marketers on how best to develop and penetrate these huge markets.