3rd Annual Nebraska IT Symposium
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2011 Nebraska
2011 Nebraska
| 7:30 am | Attendee Check-In | |
| 7:30 am | The Time Saver Buffet : Sliced Seasonal Fruits and Berries , Freshly Baked Breakfast Pastries , Scrambled Eggs , Crispy Bacon Strips and Sausage Links , Breakfast Potatoes , Chilled Orange, Cranberry and Tomato Juices, Freshly Brewed Coffee, and Decaffeinated Coffee, and Specialty Teas . | |
| 8:20 am | Welcome Message | |
| 8:30 am | Corporate IT Transformation: A Case Study from Snap-on Inc. | |
 Jeanne M. Moreno
Vice President and Chief Information Officer Snap-on Incorporated As in many companies, new CIO's find that their portfolio of business applications is often aged or obsolete. How do you find your way through the maze and define a go forward plan that establishes alignment with business strategies and builds new confidence in your IT organization? There are fundamental concepts that make IT strategies not only possible but successful: Truth, People, Processes, One, Thin, Sourcing, Evolution, Wrap, Pools, Blueprints, and Partners each play a role. This session will review the strategy that Snap-on is using to enable IT to lay the foundation for the company's Aggressive Profitable Growth objective |
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| 9:45 am | Evolution of a Distributed Sales Force: Utilizing Technology to Satisfy both IT and the Business Areas. |
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Troy Stevens
Senior Systems Programmer Mutual of Omaha Usually a change in technology provides a distinct benefit for either IT or the affected business area. Most technology solutions that are presented to the IT department, focus on benefits to the IT organization. The main focus started on the benefits to the IT organization. We will discuss how a change in thinking and technology provided a clear cut benefit for everyone. Server consolidation was the initial driver for a different solution. What started as a server consolidation idea turned into something much bigger. We will discuss the initial problems we were trying to solve and the hurdles we faced. We will discuss how the benefits far exceeded our expectations for our company as a whole. |
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| 9:45 am | Unified Communications: Enabling Business Vision |
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Brenda L. Decker The most valuable resource in any organization is its people. Enabling workforces to more effectively communicate and share information can accelerate the achievement of near term and far reaching business objectives. Communication technologies such as email have become mission critical and are a core part of enterprise collaboration strategies. The Governor of the State of Nebraska has created a vision to align technology to State operational goals. An early project in the program is focused on implementing a centralized Unified Communications capability to enhance employee productivity. This solution improves communication and helps ensure legal compliance in association with records retention and records management. This first portion of this session describes how the Unified Communications project supports the State of | ||
| 9:45 am | When the move West heads South |
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 Sponsored by Cox Business Services Dave Martin SVP & CIO Farm Credit Services of America Moving forward in your current business operations or moving locations…are you partnered with the right vendor? CIO of Farm Credit Services of America, Dave Martin shares experiences of a different kind of ‘recovery’ when two years into a three year building project for new corporate offices their telecomm vendor backs out of the project. Learn the steps to leverage new players, reevaluate services to operate business as usual and develop a strategic plan for growth while a clock ticks against the deadline of a major move. |
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| 11:00 am | Transformation: Changing IT’s Focus from Technology to Business Value | |
 Jeff O'Hare SVP Enterprise IT West Corporation We will discuss where the organization was at when I arrived 20 months ago and the vision on where we are taking the organization in the future. Develop a clear focus for the entire technology group to include Vision, |
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| 11:45 am | The Corner Deli : Homemade Soup of the Da y, Tossed Green Salad with Choice of Dressings , Pasta Salad, Potato Salad, Chicken Salad , Sliced Breast of Turkey, Roast Beef and Honey Baked Ham , Assorted Sliced Cheeses , Sliced Tomatoes, Lettuce, Onions, Pickles, and Olives , An Assortment of Sliced Breads, Onion Rolls, and Kaiser Rolls , Appropriate Condiments to Include Mayonnaise, Mustard , Assorted Desserts , Variety of Whole Fruit , Freshly Brewed Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Specialty Teas and Iced Tea . | |
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 Sponsored by Sun Microsystems
Don Mihulka Associate Chief Information Officer University of Nebraska The Gartner and Burton Groups have placed Identity Management (IdM) in the top categories for Information Technology spending in recent years. Many organizations have realized the real value of a IdM infrastructure and the long term benefits of this critical technology. Yet ‘selling’ the purpose and reasons for spending significant dollars on this important technology continues to be a challenge for many organizations. This presentation will provide an overview of IdM and why it is becoming a critical IT infrastructure component to the University of Nebraska. We will also discuss how the University has begun the process of selling IdM to its constituents and business communities, and while some strides have been made, there are challenges that remain ahead of us. Additionally, this session is intended to be interactive and provide the participants an opportunity to discuss and share their approaches to IdM and how they have ‘sold’ IdM within their organizations. |
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Valmont Have you ever sat through what seems to be endless presentations from your key vendors on Product Roadmaps and Total Cost of Ownership models and wondered how all this applied to your organization? Suddenly in the middle of one such presentation the light bulb shined brightly and the roadmap and ownership picture became perfectly clear. What caused the revelation and how it impacted the strategic direction of Valmont’s IT organization will be discussed in this breakout session. |
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 Sponsored by Choice Solutions This session will cover some aspects of selecting, purchasing, implementing and managing (i.e., post implementation) an ERP system for a midsized company from three perspectives – people, process, technology. There have been numerous ERP implementations over the past decade with few true success stories. During this session, I will attempt to share my experience with the rest of you as what it takes to succeed. |
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| 1:45 pm | The Changing Federal Rules of Evidence: Why IT Executives Should Care and What They Should Do Now |
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 Jim O'Conner Chairperson, Technology & Intellectual Property Baird Holm Law Firm |
 John Sharp Commercial & Intellectual Property Litigation Baird Holm Law Firm |
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| This presentation will discuss the recent changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence regarding electronically stored information ("ESI") focusing on the responsibilities of lawyers and IT professionals to preserve and collect evidence in electronic form. In addition, this presentation will discuss the practical impact that those rule changes will have on electronic document management. Practical advice will be given regarding: the formation of teams to prepare for electronic discovery; procedural changes to the retention of ESI and changes to the retention and backup of ESI. Finally, specific "thorny issues" such as email will be addressed. |
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 Jim Johnson Information Systems Security Administrator Omaha World-Herald Company Two recent headlines tell the story of the tough job facing IT and information security professionals. The first was that TJX companies posted a drop in second quarter profits of more than 50 percent as costs from a data breach approach $150 million. The second was research commissioned by Cisco and the National Cyber Security Alliance showing that 73 percent of mobile users said they are not always aware of security threats and best practices for protecting their data on the go. In other words, the threat to company profits from data breaches is not matched by an awareness of users of how to protect networks and data. And IT departments are caught in the cross-hairs with CEOs demanding innovative technology but holding CIOs responsible when data is breached. Jim Johnson Security must be every employee’s responsibility, says Johnson. Programs must be built on solid policies, technology to ensure compliance with those policies and user awareness of how to do the job without jeopardizing data. In this presentation, he will present ideas for implementing these ideas in your company |
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| 2:45 pm | Portfolio Management - A Case Study | |
 Walter Weir CIO University of Nebraska Increased demand for accountability in public institutions necessitates performance-based reporting across the board. Obviously, it can be a real challenge to boil the complex world of IT down to tangible measures, such as return on investment and alignment to mission. And yet, it is so important to represent this asset in those more traditionally financial market terms. In IT, we have limited resources and a plethora of requests for our time and money. How do we objectively determine which project or system we should move forward and which ones must wait? How can we involve others in the decision-making process and how do we logically explain the result? Are there tools to help us make the correct decision? Portfolio Management is a technique that is gaining favor and being used by more and more business institutions, like Sears, Hershey and the federal government, as a way to systematically choose technology investments, including applications, infrastructure, projects and vendors. It is a set of business processes, that when consistently applied, allow an organization to choose and execute on technology investments that return measurable value. The talk will explore the notion of Portfolio Management as a case study. |
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| 3:45 pm | Leadership Intelligence: Developing the Next Generation of IT Leaders |
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 Robert A. Rouse Director of the Regional SIM Leadership Forum & Professor of Computer Science Washington University Leadership remains the competitive advantage in conquering IT complexities of the 21 st Century. It is the key for IT professionals and leaders in government, non-profits, business and social enterprises. Leadership is the critical success factor for individual contributors, managers as well as those with formal leadership responsibilities. Organizations can develop leaders by intentionally providing experiences and educational opportunities to a wide variety of talented individuals Most leaders discover their own unique and authentic leadership capacities. They acquire them through continuously learning from day to day experiences as well as reflecting on their own lives, defining core beliefs and personal aspirations. Becoming an effective leader is not learning the “10 Lessons of Great Leaders”, but discovering one’s own authentic strengths and style. Leadership is a combination of what you know and who you are. Learning the “things” of leadership like strategic planning, financial analysis, and industry knowledge are necessary but not sufficient to know your personal capacities to influence through your core values and ability to get others to follow your vision and direction. Over the past fifteen years the Leadership Forum has helped high potentials discover themselves as leaders. What works for them and their organizations will be the heart of this presentation. Current senior leaders with the responsibility of developing new leaders for the future and those who aspire to leading in their lives will discover proven paths to build their own capacities and the capacities of their organizations. |
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| 4:30 pm | Closing Remarks, Cocktail Reception with Hors d'oeuvres | |
