Exclusive event for CIOs
An evening with Professor
Joe Peppard
What is the role
of the CIO in IT
Innovation?
Business Innovation with
Information Technology
University of South Australia in conjunction with
Enterprise Architects are pleased to co-host this exclusive,
invitation only event for CIOs. Join us for a presentation and
roundtable discussion on driving business innovation with
information technology.
Location:
Enterprise Architects
Level 46, Rialto South Tower
525 Collins Street, Melbourne
When:
Thursday, 10th May 2012
Time:
5:30pm to 8:00pm
drinks and canapés will be served
Speaker:
Professor Joe Peppard
Chair in Information Systems at Cranfield
School of Management and Director of the IT
Leadership Programme
Presentation and Roundtable
The forum will explore the following questions:
• How similar to, or different from, conventional forms of innovation
is IT innovation (i.e. from traditional R&D processes). Is it a topdown or bottom-up process?
• What are the road blocks to the implementation of this process?
• How is an environment that is conducive to IT innovation
cultivated?
• Are there particular mechanisms, routines and incentives that
can be put in place to support the innovation process, for
example metrics or targets?
• While formal processes can stifle innovation, how can the
balance between formal and informal processes be struck?
• What roles are required in innovation processes and who is best
positioned to play these roles?
• In particular, what is the role of the CIO/CTO in IT innovation?
• Who are the right people to be involved?
• Who should drive, or own, the IT innovation process?
• How can executive management and other stakeholders be
engaged in the IT innovation process?
• How do executive management become aware of new
technology capabilities and how do they make sense of them?
• How do you balance the ‘IT push’ with ‘business pull’ of
innovation while simultaneously avoiding the traps of innovation?
Please RSVP to:
events@enterprisearchitects.com or call 03 9615 6521
Please be advised that seats are limited at this exclusive CIO event
so please RSVP early to avoid disappointment
co-hosting with
IT LEADERSHIP FORUM
Business Innovation with Information Technology
The impact that information and communications technology is
having on all types of organisations and for competition is all too
apparent today. Through the deployment of technology we have
seen the execution of new business models, the reconfiguration of
demand and supply chains, the implementation of new processes
and work practices, and the creation of new products and services.
All of these are the result of innovation: marrying the capabilities of
technologies with competitive and management opportunities.
About the IT
Leadership
Forum
Business Innovation with
Information Technology
Presentation and Roundtable
Yet innovating with information technology is a key challenge for
organisations. Few are consistently able to “mindfully” innovate with
IT. While there are examples of IT being deployed by organisations
to provide them with a superior competitive position, in the majority
of cases these are one-off instances with organisations unable to
sustain this innovative capability. It would seem, therefore, that
many innovative deployments of IT are the result of serendipity or
luck rather than through any formal innovation process. Although
strategic information systems planning (SISP) also has an objective
of seeking opportunities to innovatively deploy IT, it focuses more on
aligning IT investments with current strategic trusts and on achieving
business objectives rather than with transforming the strategy itself
through novel deployments of IT.
Professor Joe Peppard
.
Chair in Information Systems
Cranfield School of Management
Joe is Director of the School’s IT
Leadership Programme, an education
programme for CIOs and IT executives.
He is also Adjunct Professor at the
University of South Australia.
The focus of Professor Peppard's research and teaching is in the
area of information systems and technology. Through his research
he seeks to challenge dominant orthodoxies as he believes that
these are contributing significantly to the problems that
organisations have in leveraging information technologies, both
operationally and strategically, and ultimately in optimising the value
delivered to the business.
Joe has published widely in academic, general business and
management journals and regularly presents his work at
international conferences. In 2009 he was awarded the Stafford
Beer Medal by the OR Society for his research. His most recent
books include Strategic Planning for Information Systems (Wiley)
and Customer Relationship Management: Perspectives from the
Marketplace (Butterworth-Heinemann). He is currently working on
his next book Business Innovation with Information Technology.
Professor Peppard's consulting is focused on advising organisations
on IT and strategy related matters and how to unlock business value
from their IT investments. He also works with a number of
technology companies helping them with their strategy, market
positioning and growth.
co-hosting with
IT LEADERSHIP FORUM
Professor Andy Koronios
Head of the School of Computer &
Information Science
University of South Australia
Andy is the Head of the School of
Computer & Information Science, at the
University of south Australia.
Andy holds academic qualifications in Electrical Engineering,
Computing and Education and a PhD from the University of
Queensland.
About the
forum hosts
Business Innovation with
Information Technology
Andy has research interests in electronic commerce, information
quality, information governance, and the management and
strategic exploitation of information. He is also currently Research
Program Leader of the Centre of Integrated Engineering Asset
Management (CIEAM) a federally funded centre for system
integration in engineering asset management
Presentation and Roundtable
Mac Lemon
Managing Director APAC
Enterprise Architects
Mac is Managing Director Asia Pacific at
Enterprise Architects (EA) with
accountability for client service delivery
and operations across EA’s consulting,
training and recruiting divisions.
Mac joined EA in 2007 as Director of Consulting & Advisory
Services and in this role established EA’s Professional Services
practice and oversaw EA’s growth to become the regions premier
practice focussed on the delivery of IT strategy and architecture
and IT architecture capability improvement.
Mac formerly spent eight years at Telstra in executive positions
dedicated to IT strategy and architecture. As General Manager
Strategic Architecture, Chief Software Strategist and General
Manager Architecture & Future Direction Mac implemented
processes for the management of Telstra’s technology
architecture, delivered strategies for the adoption of emerging
technology, implemented architecture and governance frameworks
and provided strategy and design services for Telstra’s commercial
products.
Mac currently chairs the Industry Advisory Committee for the RMIT
School of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Please RSVP to:
events@enterprisearchitects.com or call 03 9615 6521
Please be advised that seats are limited at this exclusive CIO event
so please RSVP early to avoid disappointment
co-hosting with
IT LEADERSHIP FORUM