Driving IT. Powering Business.

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry’s largest and most strategic conference for senior IT and business professionals. It’s the only place and time you can brainstorm with the IT world’s most sought-after independent analyst community and thousands of fellow professionals. At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo® we’ll help you see the road ahead. Spend five intensive days this November with over 80 Gartner analysts and thousands of your professional peers. Take home an entire guidance system of strategic advice you can apply immediately to drive business results.

What the Business Wants
Powerful advice on getting real business results with IT.

The Six Business Imperatives you’ll explore at Symposium/ITxpo 2007 are the major priorities of all IT and business professionals. As IT continues to drive business success, these six imperatives are where your energies and investments should be directed for maximum ROI. The 180+ sessions offered are broken out by imperative and track. Here you will find it easy to navigate as you match your desired learnings to the imperatives and tracks listed.

Business Imperative 1: Attract & Retain Customers
Accelerating revenue growth is top priority for many organizations. Key to growth is attracting new customers and cross-selling to existing customers while cultivating their loyalty. Executives in marketing, sales, and customer service expect IT to help deliver results. We look at the forces driving the customer-centric evolution, what customer experience really means, the enabling technologies you should look for, and powerful industry case studies.

Business Imperative 2: Build an Agile & Innovative Organization
Agility and innovation will be the hallmarks of business success from 2008-2012. Organizations must learn to respond quickly to competitive threats and challenge prevailing standards for competitive advantage. Learn the steps your organization must take to become truly agile and introduce innovation at a faster yet sustainable pace.

Business Imperative 3: Improve Critical Processes & Workflows
Process excellence is now a fundamental discipline for innovative and agile enterprises. But it requires a broader view of processes beyond the traditional concepts of BPM and workflow. There’s a need to understand business processes end-to-end - gaining business commitment, identifying the key metrics, assigning ownership and structuring governance, and understanding where to leverage and apply IT. We approach process excellence holistically: best practices, success drivers, and required changes. We also explore how BPM technologies are interlinked with your EA, SOA, Web 2.0 and content management initiatives.

Business Imperative 4: Improve Workforce Effectiveness
Make no mistake. As the demand for business performance intensifies, IT and business leaders must move quickly to ensure extraordinary workforce performance. The stakes are high. People must be empowered to exercise sound judgment, inject innovation into service, collaborate across distance, and thrive amid continual change. What should IT and business leaders do? The answer lies in a coordinated program that combines employee engagement, organizational change, human capital practices, social networking, and new workplace technologies. We set the stage for principles, programs, and practices that will inspire performance, unleash potential, and improve workforce effectiveness.

Business Imperative 5: Manage Risk, Compliance & Enterprise Governance
Our focus is on the tactics, strategies, tools and technologies needed to respond effectively to regulatory and other types of compliance; enterprise, operational and information risk management; E-discovery; ethics and corporate social responsibility; business continuity management; and governance. We’ll place special emphasis on an integrated approach to governance, risk management, and compliance that matches investments in business performance improvements.

Business Imperative 6: Maximize Performance, Profitability & Competitiveness
Three things top the executive agenda: performance, profitability, and competitiveness. We’ll explore specific technologies and new management practices aimed at transforming business results by maximizing performance, profitability, and competitiveness while containing costs.

If you would like to visit us at the Gartner IT Expo at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, if you would like more information or if you would like to make an appointment beforehand, please send an e-mail to mvglast@cordys.com.

For more information about this event please visit the Gartner IT Expo website.

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