August 2009

Practical Innovation and Growth: The Fusion of Business and IT

The most competitive businesses are beginning to position themselves for a return to growth via smart and incremental innovation. How? They’re fusing IT with the business with a leaner IT infrastructure that promotes business agility and growth through the elimination of wasteful IT services. This fusion of IT and the business is enabling companies to experience an increase in productivity and an improvement of the customer experience. And by redirecting resources to new business opportunities, companies will be in a better position than the competition to take advantage of the new economy that emerges. In this Smart Enterprise Executive Exchange, IT executives and subject-matter experts will discuss with attendees how a leaner IT environment can prepare the business for a return to growth.

Topics of discussion include:

• Leveraging IT efficiencies to refocus the business on practical and achievable innovation
  
• Aligning innovation with ideas for improving the customer experience
  
• Managing risk while still increasing business opportunities
  
• Ensuring performance objectives in a high-speed, global environment
  
• Communicating a top-down approach for driving innovation throughout the enterprise