September 21, 2005
Subject: Diversity and its Impact on Oregon Business
Come and hear Dr. Terryl Ross discuss diversity and how the changes in our state population will have an impact on our business community now and in the future.
About Dr. Terryl Ross
Terryl Ross has worked and volunteered in a variety of settings. He has been a: college student body president, DJ, head football coach, documentary filmmaker, small business owner, Army intelligence officer, consultant, and leader in local and national political campaigns. Terryl is currently the Director of Community and Diversity for Oregon State University. Terryl completed his Ph.D. in Educational Communications and Technology at the University of Washington. His dissertation topic was, “MOSAIC: The Case Study of a diversity-based, E-learning Community.” He received his MA from Syracuse University in Public Relations and he double-majored at Eastern Washington University in Government and Commercial Recreation. He has served as the board president of the Multicultural Alumni Association (MAP) at the University of Washington, and he has been awarded as the Volunteer-of-the-Year by the University of Washington Alumni Association. Terryl has also been featured in the Seattle Times for his commitment to empowering diverse communities via the use of emerging technologies. Terryl is best known for his role as the founder and president of MOSAIC (Multicultural Organization of Students Actively Involved in Change), which promotes diversity at the UW and abroad.
October 19, 2005
Subject: Business Intelligence: Are You Ready?
This workshop will survey the landscape of business intelligence initiatives, with a focus on lessons learned. Emerging best practices will be sketched, and the key issues underlying critical success factors for BI organizational readiness will be discussed. This will be a highly interactive venue, so come prepared to engage, learn from one another, and have fun.
Speakers:
Jerry Frank, President and CEO, CSG Professional Services, Inc.
Jerry founded CSG Professional Services, Inc. in 1993. He has more than 30 years of experience in application development, data communications, project management and business management. Over the course of his career, he has worked with leading companies including Computer Sciences Corporation, Minitel Services Company, ADP Network Services and Hyster Company. Jerry has an undergraduate degree in business and computer science from Oregon State University, as well as an MBA from Portland State University.
Jeffrey Barnes, Client Partner, CSG Professional Services, Inc.
Jeff brings more than 30 years of experience with technology-enabled business solutions. Jeff served as Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and for eight years was founder and CEO of RAIN, a Managed IT Services network. He has also held sales and general management positions with Computer Task Group, and has provided decision management services through his consulting firm, Compelevent Solutions. Jeff has served as an active member of SIM for 16 years, including three years on the Board of the Seattle Chapter. He was instrumental in formulating the SIM alliance with Gartner on the Midsize Enterprise Summit, and has been a speaker at several SIM sponsored events, including SIMposium, IT Strategies Workshops and Chapter programs. Jeff has a bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Washington, and a MS degree from Portland State University.
November 16, 2005
Subject: Lean Enterprise Systems
Using information systems to aid continuous improvement . . . and vice versa
This presentation will explore the fundamental concepts behind lean manufacturing, which originated with the Toyota Production System over fifty years ago. These concepts include the mechanics of flow and demand pull, and the enterprise-wide change management practices of continuous improvement and Hoshin planning. The presentation will emphasize how complexity causes waste, and provide suggestions on how to simplify operations and the information systems that support them – illustrating when IT should be applied to add value, and when it should be reduced or eliminated. The presentation then takes a 180-degree turn to explore how lean concepts may be applied to enhance the responsiveness of enterprise information systems, creating Lean IT.
Speaker:
Steve Bell, CFPIM
Steve is President and co-founder of Steady Improvement – a Portland-based management consulting firm dedicated to enhancing enterprise performance through the application of lean principles. He is the author of Lean Enterprise Systems, Using IT for Continuous Improvement, published by John R Wiley and Sons in October 2005. Steve is a Certified Fellow in Production and Operations Management (CFPIM) from the Association for Operations Management (APICS), and a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the Portland Chapter of SIM.
December 14, 2005
Subject: "IT Strategy for Vikings". Using Time-based Business Models to Deliver IT
This presentation takes the competitive strategies used by market leaders such as Toyota, Oticon, and GE and demonstrates how the information engine enables their agility. Taking its form from the revolutionary work of Colonel John Boyd it shows how IT executives can match the key competitive factors of their companies with their organizations.
Speaker:
David Reed, Wharton School of Business Fellow
David Reed is a Wharton School of Business Fellow with 22 years of experience. He has designed and implemented large strategic ERP, E-commerce and data warehouse systems at Bank of America, Travelocity, MCI, and Citicorp. He redesigned and rebuilt Amazon.com’s e-commerce infrastructure. In his background is extensive experience as a program and project manager in a variety of applications in banking, retail, telecommunications, and manufacturing. He is also the patented inventor of database replication and e-commerce clickstream technology. Teaching at graduate school, volunteering as an evaluator for ABET, and numerous contributions to ACM, IEEE, and ASQ are his service to the professional community. He serves as the course chairperson for the database curriculum at the University of Maryland University College and his current research includes data quality decision models.
January 18, 2006
The January meeting of the SIM Portland Chapter is a special annual event that focuses on academic activities related to the discipline of information systems. About 40 top students of Information Systems from Portland State University and Oregon State University will attend the event.
Subject: Legal Aspects of the Information Explosion Phenomenon
FIOS will lead a discussion on the current (and worsening) information explosion within the enterprise. What are some of the challenges in managing this information from an academic perspective? From an IT practitioners perspective? We will discuss their company's approaches to addressing the issues inherent in the collection of large amounts of proprietary information and processing it quickly for the legal market. We hope to have a lively discussion between the speakers and the audience including the students, the IS faculty members, and SIM members.
Speakers:
Jason Ray, VP of Delivery, and others from FIOS
Jason Ray spent 21 years at Compex Legal Services, the nation's largest on-site discovery company, where he rose from his humble beginnings as a field agent copying documents to architecting the industry's best service model and information systems. Always a futurist and free thinker, Jason's first entrepreneurial plan was to put robot miners on the Moon in 1984, and his last start-up was building online virtual reality worlds for Proctor & Gamble and Playboy that used Improvisational Computing(tm) technology to create personal interactive stories. He returned to the world of litigation services at CopyPage as General Manager for Electronic Discovery, growing this division by more than 400 percent in just 12 months. How he found the time to read the over 4,500 books in his ever-growing personal library remains a mystery, but Jason's insatiable curiosity and high energy allow him to indulge his wide-ranging interests, which include astrophysics, gourmet cooking, space activism, computer and board gaming, woodworking, hiking and white-water rafting.
February 15, 2006
Subject: The CIO’s Role in Enabling Organizational Agility – Highlights of SIM’s 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 Advanced Practices Council has recently sponsored research projects that provide answers to various aspects of enabling organizational agility through IT. This session 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 that 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?
Speaker: Madeline Weiss, Ph.D.
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 over 30 years’ experience, Weiss consults to global Fortune 100 businesses, international non-profits, universities, and professional organizations. Dr. Weiss is Program Director of the Advanced Practices Council, a research-based forum for senior IT 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.
March 15, 2006
Subject: CEO Roundtable on CIOs
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Subject: InnoTech CIO of the Year
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