Anatomy of Agile Enterprise

Overview:

Gone are the days of business-as-usual tranquility. As today's competitive advantage may be a disadvantage as soon as tomorrow, long-run superior performance calls for non-stop innovation of new value. An agile enterprise must continually change and must even be able to reinvent its core essence in the face of major business discontinuities. 

There is hardly any business change in which information technology (IT) does not play a role. In contrast, change is increasingly IT-driven. In addition to cost efficiency and reliability of operations, the role of IT as the enabler of organizational agility and innovation is increasing in importance.

Why should you attend: Information Technology (IT) has a fundamental impact in organizations and the society at large: unprecedented computing power, infinity of virtual space and ubiquitous connectivity present an enormous potential to create enterprise effectiveness, increase flexibility and enable entirely new business models. 

The traditional "IT follows business" approach may have worked reasonably well in the relatively stable and predictable business environments of the past, but it falls increasingly short in the face of today's dynamic markets, where competitive advantage is in a continuous flux. In these turbulent times, IT must redeem its promise as a competitive weapon and determine the way in which business is conducted.

Areas Covered in the Session:  

Agile Imperative

Agile Strategy

Agile Organization

Agile Leadership

Agile Governance

Agile Architecture

Agile IT

Who Will Benefit:

CEO 

Executive Vice president

General Manager

CIO

About Speaker - 

 Janne J. Korhonen is an independent business and IT consultant, specializing in organization design, enterprise architecture and governance. He brings long-time versatile experience as an architect and consultant in a variety of strategic, enterprise-scale and mission-critical IT projects. In his consulting, he leverages multi-disciplinary research insights and leading edge practices to facilitate systemic co-development of technological, organizational and individual capabilities. He is specialized in how information technology can be governed and applied strategically to catalyze organizational agility. His interventions aim at transformational vertical development with the potential of order-of-magnitude gains.

 

2-day In-person Seminar on Practical Solutions for Improving Semantic Interoperability: Toward Better Data Integration and Service Oriented Architectures at Los Angeles

Overview:

In an economy where a company's business network of suppliers, distributors, partners, and customers is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage, semantic interoperability - the ability of human and automated agents to coordinate their functioning based on a shared understanding of the data that flows among them - is a major economic enabler. Consequently, semantic interoperability problems drive up integration costs across industry.

Why should you attend: The semantic interoperability problem is so large that it can be difficult to know where to begin when seeking to mitigate it. CIOs generally estimate that integration costs eat up 30 to 60 percent of their IT budgets.

The good news is that the size of the problem means that we don't have to solve it completely in order to have substantial positive impact. Visa conducted an econometric study that suggested that modest improvements in semantic interoperability have the potential to measurably increase global GDP. 

This seminar teaches techniques for improving semantic interoperability that are starting to make their way into industry. It places an emphasis on the approaches that are relatively simple to implement and yet provide real business value. It also places those first steps on a path whose next steps are also incremental yet valuable.

This Live Seminar is a more detailed, more technically-oriented version of the Webinar entitled "Data Integration and the Semantic Interoperability Barrier: Business Impact and Overview of Practical Solutions." It also includes considerably more detail than the Virtual Webinar entitled "Data Integration and the Semantic Interoperability Barrier: Business Impact and Overview of Practical Solutions" and affords some opportunity to practice the techniques via organized exercises. 

Areas Covered in the Session: 

• The current state of the art in data integration - what we have achieved, and remaining gaps
• The business impact of the lack of semantic interoperability on data integration complexity and costs
• Keeping it simple: Identifying the approaches that are most achievable in the short to medium term and yet provide substantial benefit
• An in-depth look at new techniques for improving semantic interoperability, leveraging international standards. This includes an examination of the power and limitations of the Semantic Web in attacking the semantic interoperability problem, with a particular focus on the tradeoffs between OWL and SKOS, two key Semantic Web languages used for building ontologies and vocabularies.
• A detailed look at an innovative kind of metadata called semantic metadata, which helps to make semantic vocabularies and ontologies actionable by forming a crucial bridge between IT elements and elements of the vocabularies and ontologies. This drill-down includes a close look at rigorous modeling techniques used to incorporate semantic metadata into tools, and explores how semantic metadata leverages the ISO 11179 standard metadata standard.
• A detailed view of how the new techniques are being incorporated into key finance and business reporting standards to which the presenter has been a major contributor, including BIAN, ISO 20022, and XBRL
• A walk through the available options - and the trade-offs among them - for avoiding unnecessary disruption to the traditional data modeling process when applying the new techniques
• Integrating the Semantic Metadata Meta model into existing meta models
• Storing semantic metadata as embedded or standalone tags
• Storing semantic metadata in RDF "triple stores"
• Special considerations when applying the semantic metadata techniques to service-oriented architectures
• Concrete syntaxes for modeling semantic metadata - textual vs. graphical
• Importance and limitations of Linked Open Data for effective semantic metadata
• Leveraging pre-existing business vocabularies and ontologies
• Conventions for naming IT elements based on semantic structure: Utility and pitfalls
• General considerations for applying the techniques to big data
• Hand-on exercises modeling semantic metadata, with discussion of results

Who Will Benefit:

• Chief data office personnel  
• Data architects
• Data integrators
• Enterprise architects
• Business architects
• Business analysts
• Solutions architects
•  Application developers

About Speaker -

  David S Frankel has over 30 years of experience as a programmer, architect, and technical strategist. He is recognized as a pioneer and international authority on the subject of model-driven systems and semantic information modeling. He has a wealth of experience driving companies and industry at large to successfully adopt strategic technologies.

 

The New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts: Coping with Rule Changes, Managing Incidents, Preparing for Audits, and Avoiding Penalties

Overview: The Seminar New Economy Resources 2013 represents the latest World Wide Web resources for discovering new knowledge and understanding the latest happenings with regards to the New Economy. The world is rapidly changing as transparency, big data and the ability to access data from new and now accessible databases becomes a reality! Understanding the required new economy analytics, resources and alerts will give you the necessary tools to maintain or improve your position and or discover the new knowledge required to be the leader in your profession. These New Economy resources cover analytics, resources, and alerts to give you all the latest information to navigate the New Economy and to stay at the head of the curve!!

Why should you attend: You will learn how to access the many online New Economy resources that are available from Internet that have been preselected and filtered for you. These resources will give you the ability to navigate the New Economy and to discover new knowledge, information and methods that cannot be found in the Traditional Economy. Being prepared with quality and effective New Economy web resources will take away the fear, uncertainty and doubt associated in today's dynamic changing and fast paced economy!

Areas Covered in the Session:

• New Economy Analytics
• New Economy Resources
• New Economy Alerts
• New Economy Databases
• New Economy Monitors
• New Economy Security

Who Will Benefit:

• Marketing Directors
•  Marketing Assistants
• IT Department Supervisors
• Administrative Assistants

About Speaker:

Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; eSolutions Architect and Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Creator/Founder BotSpot.com and Executive Producer of BOT2000   and BOT2001 conferences for internet.com; has designed, developed and created online databases and information retrieval access scripts for the last thirty years.

He is a benefactor member of the Internet Society, participant in the IETF Users Services Working Group and was selected to participate in the U.S. Government's Open Meeting Electronic Forum as a non governmental expert on information retrieval and access. He is the Creator/Founder of BotSpot.com® "The Spot for all Bots and Intelligent Agents on the Net" one of the Internet's most awarded sites (over 400 awards) and is considered the definitive resource for Bots, Intelligent Agents and Artificial Intelligence on the Internet. PC Magazine selected it as one of the Top 100 Best Web Sites on the Internet in 1998 as well as selected by NetGuide as the Top 10 of all Internet sites during all of 1998. BotSpot® was acquired by internet.com LLC in January 1999. Currently Mr. Zillman is Executive Director of the Virtual Private LibraryTM creators of 53 Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs, writes, consults, tutors and delivers keynote speeches on The Future of the Internet: eCommerce Security, Cloud Computing, HTML5 and IPV6.

He is also a member of American Society for Information Science & Technology, Association of Computing Machinery, IEEE Computer Society, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, P2P Working Group and the gPulp Working Group. He has also authored over 80 professional Internet MiniGuides and Manuals on subject specific resources, hosted and produced over 160 Internet-101 weekly television shows, writes a monthly column on the latest Internet Resources as well as publishes a monthly newsletter titled Awareness Watch™. His white papers have been downloaded over two million times.