We’re thrilled to welcome Jeff Immelt to the main stage at SPARK. Jeff has written extensively on the practice of leadership and transformation, both on a global and local stage, and his experience leading through cycles, helping teams navigate crises, and driving focused, digital transformation are unmatched. At SPARK, Jeff will dive deep into these topics and demonstrate how Sourcing and Procurement can be a catalyst of change for any organization.
Are you prepared for the cloud - Dennis HowlettDavid Terrar
Cloud Accounting for the 21st Century, 22nd September 2011 at Mimecast, organized by CloudAdvocates.com. The seminar was intended to cut through the jargon to dispel and debunk some of the myths that distort decisions on the benefits of the Cloud. It coveedr advantages, perceived disadvantages, benefits, practicalities and last but in no way least, costs and commitments. Speakers included well known blogger/analysts Dennis Howlett and Phil Wainewright, tax specialist Mark Lee, cloud specialist David Terrar and blogging accountants Richard Messik and Philip Woodgate. Here are the various presentations.
Presented at TechTonic Tuesday hosted by NCTechConnection.
Dr. Kehler is Chief Scientist, Co-Founder and Board Member at CrowdSmart; a technology-based investment company dedicated to doubling the success rate of startups. Dr. Kehler has over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO.
For latest information see http://www.blionline.org/ao
Recent research from the AICPA says that the business environment for CPAs and their clients will be characterized by “unprecedented, massive and highly accelerated change” through 2025. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency--how to accurately anticipate the future. The key to success in this fast-changing environment is to commit to changing before you are being forced to. This session will show how to anticipate these trends and move from being a crisis manager to an opportunity manager. At the end of the session participants will set actionable steps to elevate and accelerate their firm's strategy.
- Anticipate marketplace trends that will shape future markets
- Understand emerging innovation faster
- Identify opportunities
- Develop clear actionable steps to accelerate growth for the organization and its customers
Important but invisible: What the Aging Workforce Needs from Design -- Big De...Michael Carvin
This presentation is an overview of the aging workforce's needs and barriers, and the consequences of excluding them from the workforce. It provides insight on the physical and cognitive problems designers often overlook, and suggests that simple awareness, understanding and empathy are good first steps towards mitigating the problem. Examples in employee onboarding, training, retention and knowledge transfer were discussed.
Are you prepared for the cloud - Dennis HowlettDavid Terrar
Cloud Accounting for the 21st Century, 22nd September 2011 at Mimecast, organized by CloudAdvocates.com. The seminar was intended to cut through the jargon to dispel and debunk some of the myths that distort decisions on the benefits of the Cloud. It coveedr advantages, perceived disadvantages, benefits, practicalities and last but in no way least, costs and commitments. Speakers included well known blogger/analysts Dennis Howlett and Phil Wainewright, tax specialist Mark Lee, cloud specialist David Terrar and blogging accountants Richard Messik and Philip Woodgate. Here are the various presentations.
Presented at TechTonic Tuesday hosted by NCTechConnection.
Dr. Kehler is Chief Scientist, Co-Founder and Board Member at CrowdSmart; a technology-based investment company dedicated to doubling the success rate of startups. Dr. Kehler has over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO.
For latest information see http://www.blionline.org/ao
Recent research from the AICPA says that the business environment for CPAs and their clients will be characterized by “unprecedented, massive and highly accelerated change” through 2025. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency--how to accurately anticipate the future. The key to success in this fast-changing environment is to commit to changing before you are being forced to. This session will show how to anticipate these trends and move from being a crisis manager to an opportunity manager. At the end of the session participants will set actionable steps to elevate and accelerate their firm's strategy.
- Anticipate marketplace trends that will shape future markets
- Understand emerging innovation faster
- Identify opportunities
- Develop clear actionable steps to accelerate growth for the organization and its customers
Important but invisible: What the Aging Workforce Needs from Design -- Big De...Michael Carvin
This presentation is an overview of the aging workforce's needs and barriers, and the consequences of excluding them from the workforce. It provides insight on the physical and cognitive problems designers often overlook, and suggests that simple awareness, understanding and empathy are good first steps towards mitigating the problem. Examples in employee onboarding, training, retention and knowledge transfer were discussed.
If you are tired of seeing the IT organization being misunderstood, losing budget, or feel like you are on a different planet from the rest of the executive team, this session is for you. Learn how to translate IT's value into a language the other business units will understand and focus your energy on the real competitors who wake up every morning with the sole intent of eating your lunch.
Whether or not you believe that IT is experiencing a
revolution, it is clear that a number the fundamentals of how
the IT infrastructure is built are changing. Server and storage
virtualisation, cloud-based delivery models, data centre
convergence onto 10 Gigabit Ethernet and the unification of
voice communications mechanisms are all symptomatic of
this. But IT is a two-edged sword: with every innovation
come a new set of risks to be mitigated, holes to be filled,
policies to be set and compliance objectives to be stuck to. In
the face of such rapid change, how exactly should
organizations large and small be thinking about security?
What are the pot-holes along the road, and how can they be
avoided?
Enterpreneurship opportunity in it[Nigeria]Obi David
With the fast rate of development in ICT, so many Africa countries continue to merry in the "Dark Age".
ICT is so big and wide to solve un-employment in any Nation.
Tomorrow Never Dies - The Future of ICT Staff.Tapio Järvenpää
Somewhat provocative lecture in itSMF Finland Conference on the 2.10.2014 about future trends to wake/shake up the audience. According to studies almost half of the features of new systems are never used i.e. half of the effort is wasted. Based on my experience this phenomena is caused by unclear vision and targets when developing business systems e.g. ERP, CRM, ... Most of the unnecessary features are inherited from legacy systems and thereby it is fair to say that legacy systems are not gone by the day when they’re replaced but halved – like radioactive materials have halving times so do legacy systems.
Old habits and paradigms dictate the way we work. Digital transformation is only in the beginning and unless we learn how to break free from legacy thinking the digital transfor- mation will not leap forward and competition will take over our businesses. Let’s thinkabout Finnish web shops. Our nation kind of missed the nature of Internet and instead of targeting customers world wide we started to build web shops that’ll serve the existing local clientele. And made space for international competition.
What if we misinterpret the Internet of Things in similar manner? Is the way we think about ICT and ICT governance adaptable and agile enough to respond to future?
It is obvious, and also reality already, that one-size-fits-all policies are not sufficient anymore e.g. in single development program co-existing different technical platforms, one suitable for continuous integration and the other for integration once in a quarter. Likewise the developers prefer different methodologies: old school waterfall and more modern scrum.
Chief HR Officers have more to say to mobile strategy than CIO because mobility is more about working ergonomics and employee satisfaction than technical stuff.
Ability to code is becoming equally important as literacy. Eventually everyone will un- derstand code like foreign languages. People will more and more start to write their own apps. What will be the role of the central ICT? Will it cease to exist?
How do the working preferences of Z and / generations differ from baby boomers? Are the traditional, established organizations ready to absorb the latest trends of development and also experiences gained by young people who are advancing parallel careers?
More and more of the traditional ICT products and services are becoming commodity and even infrastructure like electricity. What'll be the future of CIT Staff?
IT support incorporates some fundamental principles, but these need to be considered in today’s context of an increasingly flexible and more demanding workforce. In this presentation, we consider the challenges of modern day support, and how they can be met with a combination of best practices and tools.
· The modern workforce – what’s driving the state of play and what are the resulting needs
· Linking IT support challenges with continuity and productivity needs
· Applying the timeless principles of IT service delivery to an increasingly flexible workforce
· Getting ahead of the game when it comes to IT support – lessons from the front line
Emerging Technologies & Trends That Matter Now
Regus has teamed up with Muhammad Jameel (PMP), an independent technology delivery strategist and consultant, to hold a workshop on Emerging Technologies & Trends That Matter Now. The workshop is for all Regus clients across town.
Technology is all around us. Muhammad uses his United States & GCC experience in helping enterprises strategize and deliver emerging technologies. He has consulted clients on key issues: How does technology align with corporate strategy? How do we best deliver technology for enterprises?
We invite you to join us in a 30 min session where Muhammad walks us through the emerging trends that enterprises in Qatar, and globally, are following, and how your business may also come across some of these trends.
Knowledge is power. Don’t tell me sky is the limit; I’ve seen footsteps on the moon.
Civil engineers are recognized as innovators of society. They create the bridges, roadways, and walking paths that connect us to each other. Beyond infrastructure developed by civil engineers, the results of engineering are all around us – from the cars we drive to the water we drink. Engineering is a prospering field with professionals whose aggregate skills lend themselves well to the realm of leadership. Explore why engineers make great leaders by checking out this slide deck.
Brighttalk converged infrastructure and it operations management - finalAndrew White
How Converged Infrastructure Will Change IT Operations Management
Over the past decade, Enterprises have leveraged a shared service model to make IT more cost effective. The emergence of “Converged Infrastructure” and “Fabric-Based Infrastructure” will allow IT to offer purpose driven solutions rather than the function driven solutions of the past. To do this, IT will need to evolve towards more modular designs, rely more on open standards, and rethink their approach to management frameworks.
In this session you will learn:
How converged infrastructure is used to create purpose driven solutions
Why new operational challenges are faced as this new approach is used broadly
What changes need to occur to succeed with this new paradigm
Why Business Majors Should Take Technology CoursesExcella
On Monday, December 9, Excella Partner Doug Sampson spoke to Dr. Katherine Stewart's University of Maryland "Intro to Information Systems" class about why business school students should consider more (rather than fewer) technology classes in their college education.
201210 Insurance and Technology: Changing Times- How CIO's Can Increase Influ...Steven Callahan
Contributor to an article following Elite 8 winner announcements discussing how CIO's can increase their strategic influence and better enable their organizations to realize the benefits from technology.
A dialogue with CEO and Engineering, Legal, Compliance, HSE, Quality, HR, Finance, Administration to demonstrate "visible" change and true transformation is possible and that too rapidly
If you are tired of seeing the IT organization being misunderstood, losing budget, or feel like you are on a different planet from the rest of the executive team, this session is for you. Learn how to translate IT's value into a language the other business units will understand and focus your energy on the real competitors who wake up every morning with the sole intent of eating your lunch.
Whether or not you believe that IT is experiencing a
revolution, it is clear that a number the fundamentals of how
the IT infrastructure is built are changing. Server and storage
virtualisation, cloud-based delivery models, data centre
convergence onto 10 Gigabit Ethernet and the unification of
voice communications mechanisms are all symptomatic of
this. But IT is a two-edged sword: with every innovation
come a new set of risks to be mitigated, holes to be filled,
policies to be set and compliance objectives to be stuck to. In
the face of such rapid change, how exactly should
organizations large and small be thinking about security?
What are the pot-holes along the road, and how can they be
avoided?
Enterpreneurship opportunity in it[Nigeria]Obi David
With the fast rate of development in ICT, so many Africa countries continue to merry in the "Dark Age".
ICT is so big and wide to solve un-employment in any Nation.
Tomorrow Never Dies - The Future of ICT Staff.Tapio Järvenpää
Somewhat provocative lecture in itSMF Finland Conference on the 2.10.2014 about future trends to wake/shake up the audience. According to studies almost half of the features of new systems are never used i.e. half of the effort is wasted. Based on my experience this phenomena is caused by unclear vision and targets when developing business systems e.g. ERP, CRM, ... Most of the unnecessary features are inherited from legacy systems and thereby it is fair to say that legacy systems are not gone by the day when they’re replaced but halved – like radioactive materials have halving times so do legacy systems.
Old habits and paradigms dictate the way we work. Digital transformation is only in the beginning and unless we learn how to break free from legacy thinking the digital transfor- mation will not leap forward and competition will take over our businesses. Let’s thinkabout Finnish web shops. Our nation kind of missed the nature of Internet and instead of targeting customers world wide we started to build web shops that’ll serve the existing local clientele. And made space for international competition.
What if we misinterpret the Internet of Things in similar manner? Is the way we think about ICT and ICT governance adaptable and agile enough to respond to future?
It is obvious, and also reality already, that one-size-fits-all policies are not sufficient anymore e.g. in single development program co-existing different technical platforms, one suitable for continuous integration and the other for integration once in a quarter. Likewise the developers prefer different methodologies: old school waterfall and more modern scrum.
Chief HR Officers have more to say to mobile strategy than CIO because mobility is more about working ergonomics and employee satisfaction than technical stuff.
Ability to code is becoming equally important as literacy. Eventually everyone will un- derstand code like foreign languages. People will more and more start to write their own apps. What will be the role of the central ICT? Will it cease to exist?
How do the working preferences of Z and / generations differ from baby boomers? Are the traditional, established organizations ready to absorb the latest trends of development and also experiences gained by young people who are advancing parallel careers?
More and more of the traditional ICT products and services are becoming commodity and even infrastructure like electricity. What'll be the future of CIT Staff?
IT support incorporates some fundamental principles, but these need to be considered in today’s context of an increasingly flexible and more demanding workforce. In this presentation, we consider the challenges of modern day support, and how they can be met with a combination of best practices and tools.
· The modern workforce – what’s driving the state of play and what are the resulting needs
· Linking IT support challenges with continuity and productivity needs
· Applying the timeless principles of IT service delivery to an increasingly flexible workforce
· Getting ahead of the game when it comes to IT support – lessons from the front line
Emerging Technologies & Trends That Matter Now
Regus has teamed up with Muhammad Jameel (PMP), an independent technology delivery strategist and consultant, to hold a workshop on Emerging Technologies & Trends That Matter Now. The workshop is for all Regus clients across town.
Technology is all around us. Muhammad uses his United States & GCC experience in helping enterprises strategize and deliver emerging technologies. He has consulted clients on key issues: How does technology align with corporate strategy? How do we best deliver technology for enterprises?
We invite you to join us in a 30 min session where Muhammad walks us through the emerging trends that enterprises in Qatar, and globally, are following, and how your business may also come across some of these trends.
Knowledge is power. Don’t tell me sky is the limit; I’ve seen footsteps on the moon.
Civil engineers are recognized as innovators of society. They create the bridges, roadways, and walking paths that connect us to each other. Beyond infrastructure developed by civil engineers, the results of engineering are all around us – from the cars we drive to the water we drink. Engineering is a prospering field with professionals whose aggregate skills lend themselves well to the realm of leadership. Explore why engineers make great leaders by checking out this slide deck.
Brighttalk converged infrastructure and it operations management - finalAndrew White
How Converged Infrastructure Will Change IT Operations Management
Over the past decade, Enterprises have leveraged a shared service model to make IT more cost effective. The emergence of “Converged Infrastructure” and “Fabric-Based Infrastructure” will allow IT to offer purpose driven solutions rather than the function driven solutions of the past. To do this, IT will need to evolve towards more modular designs, rely more on open standards, and rethink their approach to management frameworks.
In this session you will learn:
How converged infrastructure is used to create purpose driven solutions
Why new operational challenges are faced as this new approach is used broadly
What changes need to occur to succeed with this new paradigm
Why Business Majors Should Take Technology CoursesExcella
On Monday, December 9, Excella Partner Doug Sampson spoke to Dr. Katherine Stewart's University of Maryland "Intro to Information Systems" class about why business school students should consider more (rather than fewer) technology classes in their college education.
201210 Insurance and Technology: Changing Times- How CIO's Can Increase Influ...Steven Callahan
Contributor to an article following Elite 8 winner announcements discussing how CIO's can increase their strategic influence and better enable their organizations to realize the benefits from technology.
A dialogue with CEO and Engineering, Legal, Compliance, HSE, Quality, HR, Finance, Administration to demonstrate "visible" change and true transformation is possible and that too rapidly
The rapid rate of technological change can be overwhelming. Everyone sometimes needs to have a virtual CIO on call.
A virtual CIO can help the CIO, IT director, or business owner evaluate new technology, translate between IT and the business units, motivate and mentor effectively, and keep the big picture in focus. This holistic approach helps to create value, integrate systems, save costs, lower risks, increase innovation and produce successful outcomes.
IT Consultation — Expert, unbiased advice on a breadth of operational and strategic areas. This is tailored to the organization’s need, size, culture, and cost preferences. It may consist of providing a second opinion; briefing on industry best practices (e.g., for disaster recovery); building a support infrastructure (e.g., for mobile device support); or doing the problem analysis, plan, cost justification and presentations to the Board, among other possibilities.
Cloud Readiness Audits — Assessment of existing systems architecture, recommendations on which operational, financial, and accounting processes that could be moved to the cloud, and how to do so.
Rescue Assessments — Highly focused, impartial review of breakdowns in systems, applications, infrastructure and more. No finger-pointing, just a solid plan to fix the problem and get you back on track.
Support for Relocations — Experienced and thorough guidance in planning and executing the relocation of servers, networking and other computing assets to ensure efficiency, safety and continuity of operations.
Mentoring — Skills assessment and development; executive coaching; linking business and technology objectives to team performance; and requirements definition for strategic staffing.
New Hire Training - Hitachi EngineeringRich Rogers
New hire training for engineers joining our Seattle team. Our Seattle team is responsible for the Unified Compute Platform (UCP). UCP integrates server, network, storage & virtualization technologies into a single turnkey solution. UCP enables admins to very easily drive millions of dollars of IT gear from a single pane of glass.
This material covers Hitachi, engineering positions, leadership roles, & culture.
Current state of cloud computing - Joe Kinsella - Founder & CTO CloudHealth T...MassTLC
When, Where and How to Go to the Cloud: Joe Kinsella Founder & CTO, CloudHealth Technologies Opening Remarks.
Hosted by MassTLC at Constant Contact 1/26/16
Current State of Cloud Computing (Jan 2016)Joe Kinsella
On January 26th 2016 the MassTLC held an event on "When, Where and How to Go to the Cloud". The event was a panel discussion led by Joe Kinsella, CTO & Founder of CloudHealth Technologies. Prior to the event, Joe shared this update on the current state of the cloud.
http://blog.masstlc.org/2016/01/when-where-and-how-to-go-to-cloud.html
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High adoption. Rapid time-to-value. Enjoyable experience. That’s the Scout way -- and this empowers Sourcing teams, business stakeholders, and suppliers to transform the way they work together. Scout’s co-founders will take the stage to unveil new innovations for customers and define what this means for the future of Sourcing and Procurement.
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can constrain opportunities across the business, both financially and career-wise. Learn how these sourcing
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business with defensible data and produce a hard-hitting impact to the bottom line. And you’ll help your
team become more data-aware in the process.
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Product Deep Dive: Cut Through the Chaos with Scout ContractsScout RFP
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Scout Contracts was born: simple, flexible contract management paired with a better way to identify, track,
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Listen to the keynote address and hear about the latest developments from Rachana Ananthakrishnan and Ian Foster who review the updates to the Globus Platform and Service, and the relevance of Globus to the scientific community as an automation platform to accelerate scientific discovery.
Globus Compute wth IRI Workflows - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
Climate Science Flows: Enabling Petabyte-Scale Climate Analysis with the Eart...Globus
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a global network of data servers that archives and distributes the planet’s largest collection of Earth system model output for thousands of climate and environmental scientists worldwide. Many of these petabyte-scale data archives are located in proximity to large high-performance computing (HPC) or cloud computing resources, but the primary workflow for data users consists of transferring data, and applying computations on a different system. As a part of the ESGF 2.0 US project (funded by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science), we developed pre-defined data workflows, which can be run on-demand, capable of applying many data reduction and data analysis to the large ESGF data archives, transferring only the resultant analysis (ex. visualizations, smaller data files). In this talk, we will showcase a few of these workflows, highlighting how Globus Flows can be used for petabyte-scale climate analysis.
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
In software engineering, the right architecture is essential for robust, scalable platforms. Wix has undergone a pivotal shift from event sourcing to a CRUD-based model for its microservices. This talk will chart the course of this pivotal journey.
Event sourcing, which records state changes as immutable events, provided robust auditing and "time travel" debugging for Wix Stores' microservices. Despite its benefits, the complexity it introduced in state management slowed development. Wix responded by adopting a simpler, unified CRUD model. This talk will explore the challenges of event sourcing and the advantages of Wix's new "CRUD on steroids" approach, which streamlines API integration and domain event management while preserving data integrity and system resilience.
Participants will gain valuable insights into Wix's strategies for ensuring atomicity in database updates and event production, as well as caching, materialization, and performance optimization techniques within a distributed system.
Join us to discover how Wix has mastered the art of balancing simplicity and extensibility, and learn how the re-adoption of the modest CRUD has turbocharged their development velocity, resilience, and scalability in a high-growth environment.
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
Understanding Globus Data Transfers with NetSageGlobus
NetSage is an open privacy-aware network measurement, analysis, and visualization service designed to help end-users visualize and reason about large data transfers. NetSage traditionally has used a combination of passive measurements, including SNMP and flow data, as well as active measurements, mainly perfSONAR, to provide longitudinal network performance data visualization. It has been deployed by dozens of networks world wide, and is supported domestically by the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), NSF #2328479. We have recently expanded the NetSage data sources to include logs for Globus data transfers, following the same privacy-preserving approach as for Flow data. Using the logs for the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as an example, this talk will walk through several different example use cases that NetSage can answer, including: Who is using Globus to share data with my institution, and what kind of performance are they able to achieve? How many transfers has Globus supported for us? Which sites are we sharing the most data with, and how is that changing over time? How is my site using Globus to move data internally, and what kind of performance do we see for those transfers? What percentage of data transfers at my institution used Globus, and how did the overall data transfer performance compare to the Globus users?
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How to Position Your Globus Data Portal for Success Ten Good PracticesGlobus
Science gateways allow science and engineering communities to access shared data, software, computing services, and instruments. Science gateways have gained a lot of traction in the last twenty years, as evidenced by projects such as the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) and the Center of Excellence on Science Gateways (SGX3) in the US, The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and its platforms in Australia, and the projects around Virtual Research Environments in Europe. A few mature frameworks have evolved with their different strengths and foci and have been taken up by a larger community such as the Globus Data Portal, Hubzero, Tapis, and Galaxy. However, even when gateways are built on successful frameworks, they continue to face the challenges of ongoing maintenance costs and how to meet the ever-expanding needs of the community they serve with enhanced features. It is not uncommon that gateways with compelling use cases are nonetheless unable to get past the prototype phase and become a full production service, or if they do, they don't survive more than a couple of years. While there is no guaranteed pathway to success, it seems likely that for any gateway there is a need for a strong community and/or solid funding streams to create and sustain its success. With over twenty years of examples to draw from, this presentation goes into detail for ten factors common to successful and enduring gateways that effectively serve as best practices for any new or developing gateway.
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Recreation management software streamlines operations by automating key tasks such as scheduling, registration, and payment processing, reducing manual workload and errors. It provides centralized management of facilities, classes, and events, ensuring efficient resource allocation and facility usage. The software offers user-friendly online portals for easy access to bookings and program information, enhancing customer experience. Real-time reporting and data analytics deliver insights into attendance and preferences, aiding in strategic decision-making. Additionally, effective communication tools keep participants and staff informed with timely updates. Overall, recreation management software enhances efficiency, improves service delivery, and boosts customer satisfaction.
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3. Productivity needs a “reboot”
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Previous Now
• Productivity slump
• Negative impact on growth
• Requires investment & outcomes
• Risk to jobs
The Problem We Are Solving
4. Leading Digital Transformation
Build a belief system that data is a competitive advantage
(at the top … “the art of the possible”)
Develop new ways to work (breakthrough inertia)
“Re-frame” the enterprise
CIO/CDO … talent + technology
Empower users
Define what is “core”
Drive outcomes … productivity, cash, share, customer value,
speed, security, etc.
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Pay for “Wave 2”
Digital Investments
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RPA
Sourcing tools
Analytics
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Investment Prioritization
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+ Map the industry & ecosystem …
risk & margin
+ Partner with sales & engineering …
drive speed
+ Own your tools … transparency, data labs,
should cost
+ Typically you are the cyber weak link
+ Very few things are “win-win”
Sourcing Leaders
Stan - Big thank to Anaplan, Workday, & Wellmark for sharing their journeys with everybody here.
Today and tomorrow we want you to listen, network, share stories, and have fun.
That is what makes this event so great.)
If you have any questions, there are lots of Scouts around if you need anything - just ask
Also, If you want to meet with our product or CS team visit the demo bar that will be open the entire day.
Alex - incredibly excited to invite our first guest on stage - Jeff I - quick bio