Meeting - January 2006
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Speaker
David Williams,  Principal, Trissential

When it comes to creation - whether you're creating teams, methodologies or architecture - David has extensive experience.  Combine his accomplishments with an exceptional mind for achieving client goals with the best possible solution, and you can understand why he's one of 150 Microsoft designated Informed Architects in the world.

David is an articulate leader, and uses his strong communication skills to help illuminate the finer points of Enterprise Strategic Planning, SDLC methodology, designing SPA, ESB and EAI frameworks, and high availability web environments - his particular specialties.

Topic
"The Four Faces of Architecture"

The ever changing market place demands agility, and your insight to your own organization's capabilities can be the deciding factor in how to invest for improved market advantage.  The quality level of a decision is usually in direct proportion to the relevant information that is at hand when forced to commit to a direction.  Architecture plays a critical role in enabling a knowledge management value chain that can empower business leaders in shaping corporate direction.

In this session we will identify the roles ("faces") and relationships architecture must cultivate, the tangible deliverables that define the collaborations, and the value proposition each brings to the enterprise.  We will also identify the pitfalls that occur within organizations when these organizational value chains do not exist.

Meeting - February 2006
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Speaker
Ryan E. Moore, Special Agent, U.S. Secret Service

I am a 1996 graduate of The United States Military Academy with a B.S. in Arabic. I served almost six years in the U.S. Army as an Infantry Officer. Leaving the military in 2002, I joined the Secret Service, I served two years in the Counterfeit Squad, and I am presently assigned to the Electronic Crimes Task Force as a member of the network intrusion program. In addition to professional training provided by the Secret Service and Department of Defense, I am a graduate student in DePaul University's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems.

Topic
Cyberthreat Environment

• Top It security threats
• Threat agents
• Protection methodology
• Does IS matter

Meeting - March 8th, 2006
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Speaker
Kate Kaiser, Marquette University

Dr. Kate M. Kaiser has been involved in information technology (IT) as a practitioner, researcher, faculty member, and consultant. She is researching the future IT skill needs and the impact of offshore outsourcing from Ireland, Russia, and India through research grants from the Sloan and 3M Foundations. Kate has served on the faculty of McGill University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University College Dublin, and Marquette University and worked for Giga Information group on the Y2K team. She has also published in MIS Quarterly Executive, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of High Technology Research, Information and Management, and Datamation, among others. She has been a SIM member since 1977, a founding member of the Wisconsin chapter, served on various board positions, and presented at SIMposiums. Her BA and MBA are from Kent State and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.

Topic
IT Workforce Pipeline: Trends and Implications
The increasingly global sourcing of IT work, the shift from exclusively IT services to business process services, pending baby-boomer retirements, and declining IT university enrollments are prompting fundamental changes in the availability of IT skills and capabilities needed in both client and vendor organizations. SIM Advocacy sponsored research to explore the current and future needs for IT skills and capabilities in organizations. The research was conducted by over 20 researchers in the US and Europe form May to September. Preliminary results were presented at SIMposium 2005 and SIM Academic Workshop. Kate M. Kaiser, coordinator of the project, will share the results, discuss how they affect university curriculum and IT human resource strategy, and suggest practices for feeding the pipeline.

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Meeting - April 2006
Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Speaker
Randolf A. Gschwind

Mr. Gschwind has been involved in information technology (IT) as a practitioner since the 1970's.  His career with the City of Milwaukee includes serving as the Information Systems Manager for the Housing Authority, City Information Resource Manager, City Wide Year 2000 Project Manager and Chief Information Officer.  In addition, he has served as President  of City Data Enterprises Corporation.  Randy's undergraduate and graduate degrees are from Northwestern University and include a B.A. in Mathematics, M.A. in Quantitative Georgraphy and he has completed Ph.D. Coursework in Urban Georgraphy.

Mr. Gschwind's professional activities and affiliations include:

• eInnovate - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Milwaukee IT Leadership Forum
• UW-Milwaukee Center for Technology Innovation
• Urban & Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) - National President 1994-1995
• National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
• Adjunct Professor, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
• Guest Lecturer, Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District Citizens Environmental Advisory Committee
• American Planning Association
• Wisconsin Land Information Association

Topic
The Milwaukee Wireless Initiative

The Milwaukee Wireless Initiative is Mayor Barrett’s plan to allow a local private company to build a wireless network throughout the entire city.  Several key aspects of this program include:  it will exist at no expense to City Taxpayers, the network itself will be vendor neutral and it will be open to all ISPs on equal footing.

Mr. Gschwind will discuss the Milwaukee Wireless Initiative plans and status.  This includes how the project is set up, its goals, and the overall plan and schedule. He will address the types of services that users may expect to see, and some of the other benefits of this initiative. You will hear first hand how the program will address the digital divide, as well as the key aspects of the agreement and what parties are to be involved in the creation and utilization of this initiative. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, Mr. Gschwind will outline how this project will position Milwaukee in the ever-growing wireless world.

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Meeting - May 2006
Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Speaker
Madeline Weiss, SIM's Advanced Practices Council

Dr. Weiss is president of Weiss Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in organizational strategy and change, especially as they relate to information services and technology. With 35 years’ experience, Weiss consults to global businesses (many in the Fortune 100), international non-profits, universities and professional organizations.

Dr. Weiss is director of SIM's Advanced Practices Council, a research-based forum for senior technology executives looking for leading-edge insights into leveraging IT for corporate competitive advantage, sponsored by the Society for Information Management (SIM). She also facilitates SIM’s Regional Leadership Forum, a leadership development program.

She speaks frequently at corporate, non-profit, and professional learning events and has been published widely in both the business and IT industry press. Open Computing magazine listed her as one of the top 100 women in computing.

Topic
The CIO's Role In Enabling Organizational Agility -- Highlights of SIM's Advanced Practices Council (APC) Research Findings

CIOs play key roles in positioning their firms to move quickly to exploit opportunities to move into new markets, buy and sell businesses, change business models and partners, introduce new products and services, and share ideas and practices. The APC has recently sponsored research projects that provide answers to various aspects of enabling organizational agility through IT. In this session, Madeline Weiss, APC Program Director, will share the highlights of these findings, including:

· Enterprise architecture – What are the characteristics of modular enterprise architectures that facilitate agility? How do you evolve to that stage? Can you skip some stages and still be successful? Which enterprise architecture management practices are used by successful firms?

· Governance – How can effective IT governance practices enable agility? Which IT governance practices do firms with the highest profits embrace?

· Global outsourcing – What practices lead to successful global outsourcing? How can you move quickly through the learning curve, mitigating risks and ensuring cost savings while protecting quality?

· Far-flung teams – What practices and technologies best support the work of far-flung teams which must deliver innovative solutions quickly despite geographic distance and across organizational boundaries?

· Wikis – How can Wikis help your firm to increase participation in sharing mission critical knowledge fully and quickly?

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Meeting - September 2006
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Speaker
Russ Mayer, CIO GE Medical

Russ Mayer is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of GE Healthcare, a $15B division of General Electric. GE Healthcare is the global leader in medical Diagnostic technology, information systems and Biosciences. Russ joined GE Healthcare in September of 2005 from GE Transportation, where he was the Vice President and CIO since January 2004. He joined GE Aircraft Engines in July 2000 as chief information officer and in September 2000 was named an officer of General Electric Company. Before joining GE Aircraft Engines, Russ was senior vice president of information technology and chief quality officer of NBC. Russ was the Six Sigma Leader for GE's Electrical Distribution & Control business from 1997 to 1998; prior to this, he was their CIO. He was assistant vice president of Information Services for Chiquita Brands International from 1992 to 1994. Before his tenure at Chiquita, Russ held a variety of information systems positions with increasing responsibility in GE Lighting and in several large steel companies. Russ earned a bachelor degree in psychology with a concentration in mathematics from Mount Union College, in Ohio. He is a certified Quality Leader.

Topic
Russ will talk about GE Healthcare and Emerging Technologies 

CIO Summit 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Speaker
Mark MacDonald, Gartner Executive Programs 

Mark McDonald is a group vice president and head of research in Gartner Executive Programs. He is responsible for the research agenda focused exclusively on CIOs and the business of information technology. Mr. McDonald is the lead author of research in the areas of CIO credibility, the business use of advanced technologies, enterprise architecture and business process transformation. He is the co-author with Peter Keen of "The eProcess Edge" and the author of "Architecting Enterprises - Achieving Performance and Flexibility."

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. McDonald was a partner at Accenture, where he was responsible for the Center for Process Excellence and methodology.

CIOs and executives face a challenging marketplace and rising expectations. Working with CIOs and IT leaders to find approaches and techniques to resolve their issues is the high point of my job.

Topic
Change Management
Keep the change, bring on innovation Change is a constant in business and necessary to remain competitive and profitable. While change can come from many different places, CIOs are often put in the middle finding themselves in the role of change leader. This is a position with great promise and peril that many CIOs do not prepare for. Traditional change management and leadership techniques such as establishing a burning platform have lost their potency. Leading CIOs are moving away from these techniques and adopting an evolutionary path concentrating on innovation. This presentation will discuss how CIOs are becoming effective change leaders by using these techniques.

• Is the CIO the natural choice for change leader?
• What are the roles and responsibilities of a change leader?
• Why are traditional change management techniques losing their power? 
• What are the techniques that others are using to be successful? 

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Meeting - November 2006
Tuesday, November 8th, 2006

Speaker
Keith Guenther, Business Productivity Advisor for Microsoft Corp.

Topic
Collaboration - How it will dramatically improve information worker productivity in your company

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