2nd Annual Oklahoma IT Symposium
Previous Events
Kansas City 2007
Wisconsin 2007
Kansas City 2007
Kansas City 2007
| 8:00 am | Attendee Check-In; Breakfast Served: |
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| 8:50 am | Welcome Message | |
| 9:00 am | Retaining Organizational Knowledge | |
 Chuck Tryon Founder Tryon and Associates Organizations of all types and sizes are struggling to address the widening gap between what they must know to thrive and an unprecedented loss of organizational knowledge. New market opportunities and improved technologies create a growing demand for new knowledge. At the same time, seasoned workers are retiring at rates never seen in modern business and finding adequate replacements is becoming more difficult. A new management discipline, Knowledge Management, has recently emerged with the goal to help organizations recognize, retain and share organizational knowledge. Knowledge Management is dominating discussions in executive suites around the world. Yet for many, this topic remains conceptual and intangible. In this fresh and innovative presentation, noted speaker, author and seminar leader, Chuck Tryon of Tryon and Associates, identifies two key elements missing from most organizations’ approach to Knowledge Management. One critical component is a formal Knowledge Retention Policy that serves as an inventory of intellectual assets considered valuable to an organization. The other is to utilize naturally occurring projects as key source to harvest refined organizational knowledge, feeding both project and product repositories. These concepts are the result of over twenty-five years of research into implications of the Knowledge Age and a more recent collaboration with Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, the program director of the Masters of Science in Knowledge Management program at the University of Oklahoma. This presentation will clearly identify the challenges brought on by the current knowledge drain and how Knowledge Management addresses the problem. Mr. Tryon will then provide very practical advice on how a Knowledge Retention Policy will help you identify areas of organizational risk as well as establish a foundation for knowledge retention. Lastly, Mr. Tryon will offer a number of very tangible steps for you to consider as you implement a Knowledge Management strategy in your organization. This presentation is based on a collaboration with Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, program coordinator of the Master’s of Knowledge Management program at the University of Oklahoma. |
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| 10:15 am | Technologies to Identify and Control the Transfer of Confidential Data |
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 Sponsored by UpTime
Jeff Bewley Managing Partner Netbriar, LLC |
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| 10:15 am | Partner Early, and Often, With Your Vendors | |
 Sponsored by Cox Business Services
John Delano VP & CIO INTEGRIS Health As you think about the technologies you use do you really have vendor partners? Would you rather have a vendor walk with you in making decisions or come in after the technology decisions have been made? When you have a vendor walk with you they understand the strategic direction of the company and they provide input on what things will work and what will not work. Most vendors are too large and too busy to truly partner with a single company. Integris’s experience has been that there are many vehicles offered by companies to truly leverage their knowledge and experience to help you get the most out of their software/support/services. This breakout will discuss how Integris has utilized this approach to maximize the return on investment with the vendors they work with. |
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| 10:15 am | Gaining Greater Efficiencies with Field Force Automation |
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 Sponsored by SprintMark Whitmire Vice President of Information Technology Cox Communications The purpose of this session is to share ideas, practices, and processes around automating a field work force. Cox Communications will start by sharing its best practices around deploying laptops with a mobile broadband network in all their field and services vehicles. This breakout will share the lessons learned in automating a workforce, the cultural changes that had to take place, and the impact on the business with greater efficiencies. This session will be a long on dialog, and short on formal presentation. Be prepared to share if you attend this session | ||
| 11:30 am | Printer, Copier & Fax Fleets: The Goldmine in the Hallway |
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 Sponsored by OneSOURCE
Stephen Clark Former CIO Printing, copying and faxing represent a potential source and destination for business-critical information. Many printers are digital, affordable and reliable, yet have largely been left unmanaged as they spread rapidly across the network. While carefully managed, most copiers are largely unreliable and antiquated in today’s digital age. Faxing, while still utilized in most offices, is also old technology. This breakout will discuss how to improve these areas in your company and reduce your current costs in this realm of your business by 10-20% and the lessons learned in doing so. |
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| 11:30 am | Server Virtualization and The Need for Speed | |
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Stephen Taylor
Director of IT Infrastructure This session will cover our business motivation, our approach, lessons learned, challenges and solutions we found in implementing successful server virtualization. We will discuss the business feedback driving a move to server virtualization. We will discuss the key enabling technologies of EMC’s storage and virtualization platform. We will discuss the financial impacts, technology support, reliability, and performance considerations of virtualization. The experiences and current efforts of Chesapeake Energy Corporation in this arena will be the basis for initiating questions, insights, and experiences from others participating in this session. |
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch Served: Route 66 Deli Buffet- Tossed garden salad with ranch dressing & house vinaigrette, Chipotle corn & black bean salad, Mustard & chive potato salad, Deli meats & cheeses, Focaccia, ciabatta & baguettes, Lettuce, tomato, onions, pepperoncini & black olives, Choice of soup of the day or au gratin potatoes, Selection of home style desserts, Iced tea, coffee and water. | |
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CIO Chickasaw Enterprises The casino gaming industry nationally has undergone tremendous growth in the last two years, and no where is that more evident than here in Oklahoma. The Chickasaw Nation has been a leader in this growth and has a tremendous reliance on technology to meet the demands of this growth and expansion. Chickasaw Enterprises has over 8,500 electronic games and 80 table games in use at 17 facilities. Chickasaw currently owns and operates the two largest facilities in the state, Riverwind and Windstar. The Windstar facility is undergoing an expansion of 4,000 electronic games that will make it the 3rd largest single gaming site in the country. This session will focus on lessons learned regarding what it took to build an entire IT department from scratch in order to meet the business growth and expectations. The challenge of building an entire IT department (staff, infrastructure, and applications) can be daunting but rewarding. This session will dive into the lessons learned from Chickasaw and will provide many insights into those challenges. |
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| 1:15 pm | The Zen of Quantum Change Management: Implementing Successful Change Management Principals into a Dynamic Organization | |
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Chuck Mize |
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| Starting in 2007, This session will discuss the relationship between overall organizational change and the IT Change Management function. |
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 David Hopkins Managing Director of ITS American Airlines This session will focus on ITS’ role in transforming the worlds largest aircraft maintenance operation from a cost center to a profit center. Major shifts in a business strategy require careful consideration by the IT organization to maintain current operations while supporting new, sometimes competing priorities. Ideally existing IT investment can be leveraged to bridge the business from the current state to the future state. But that requires careful planning and strict adherence to defined standards to insure all the pieces continue to fit together throughout the transformation. |
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| 3:15 pm | The ABC's of Business Alignment |
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 Amber Merchant SVP, Operations & Technology Division Bank of Oklahoma This session will provide participants with real-life, actionable examples of how IT leaders can help foster a culture of business alignment in their organizations.
By 2005, Bank of Oklahoma's senior management team had become accustomed to familiar pain points -- there always seemed to be more technology projects on deck than IT could handle, and no clear processes to decide what was most important. Goals for each executive and line of business were set independently, and not even widely shared, let alone aligned with each other.
A strategic business alignment initiative was established, and within a year the organization had implemented a process for aligning goals and financial plans across divisions, and improving relationships and processes for working together.
This session will discuss the basic principles and overall framework for business alignment. Attend this session and you will walk away with techniques you can put to work in your organization the very next day.
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| 3:15 pm | Keeping Your Enterprise Running: Strategies for Securing Interconnected Critical Infrastructure Networks | |
 Dr. Sujeet Shenoi |
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| 3:15 pm | E-Discovery and E-Law: Keeping, Finding and Disclosing E-Evidence | |
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| Effective December 1, 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will require substantially expanded understanding of the procedures involved in crating, storing, retrieving, working with, disclosing and expunging your businesses electronic information. Everyone involved with electronic information needs to have general knowledge of what the new rules required if and when litigation is likely to occur. Learning about the new requirements when litigation is likely or when litigation occurs will be too late to prevent inadvertent transgressions and possible sanctions. This session will cover: 1. The key elements of the Electronic Discovery amendments; 2. A step-by-step guide to prepare you for e-discovery; 3. Examples of electronic media and formats that are discoverable; and 4. An example of a request for e-document production that will be typical in federal litigation. | ||
| 4:15 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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| 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks, Cocktail Reception with Hors d'oeuvres | |
Sponsored by Agilysys 