The most competitive IT organizations are beginning to position themselves for a return to smart and incremental growth. How? Under the leadership of the CIO, enterprises are fusing IT with the business by leveraging a leaner IT infrastructure that promotes agility through the elimination of wasteful IT services. It’s enabling these enterprises to experience an increase in productivity and an improvement of the customer experience. And by redirecting resources to new opportunities, CIOs will be putting their companies or agencies in a better position to take advantage of new economic models that emerge. In this Smart Enterprise Executive Exchange, IT executives and subject-matter experts will discuss with attendees how a leaner IT environment can prepare you to take advantage of new opportunities in a more agile environment. Topics of discussion include:

• The importance of CIO leadership in an economic transition
• Leveraging IT efficiencies to refocus the business on practical and achievable innovation
• Aligning innovation with ideas for improving the customer experience
• The fusion of the business and IT to promote agility and growth
• Managing risk while still increasing business opportunities
• How service providers can extend a lean IT environment to their customers
• Ensuring performance objectives in a high-speed, global environment