Agenda

Tuesday May 15, 2007

Country Springs Hotel, Pewaukee

5th Annual Wisconsin IT Symposium

Knowledge & Networking
7:30 am Attendee Check-In; Breakfast Served: Capitol Breakfast Buffet
8:20 am Welcome Message
8:30 am Corporate IT Transformation:  A Case Study from Snap-on Inc. 
 

Sponsored by Sun Microsystems

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.
9:45 am
Leveraging Intranet Portals for Business Performance Management
 

Sponsored by Microsoft

James Herzfeld
VP of IT & CIO
Journal Sentinel

The session will focus on building a company portal that responds to high demands and a changing business environment.  Intranet portals require constant change by many different individuals in the corporation. The key for IT is to allow creativity to flow but control the chaos.  So…how does IT organize the portal to allow for individual department dashboards, departmental company wide publication, document retention, project management, document collaboration and Business Intelligence metrics/reporting while maintaining proper security control?
9:45 am Enterprise Information and Integration: Kohl's interpretation of Best Practice
 
Sponsored by Informatica

Christopher Smith
VP, Enterprise Architecture & Strategic Planning
Kohl's Department Stores

The purpose of this session is to share ideas, practices, organizations, and processes around information integration.  Kohl's will start the discussion by sharing its best practices around integration, centers of excellence, architecture patterns, and organizational structure.  This session will be a long on dialog, and short on formal presentation.  Be prepared to share if you attend this session.
9:45am Distributed to Centralized Computing - Benefits and Issues... 
 

Sponsored by Citrix

Bruce Hagen
VP Corporate Information Systems
Bemis Manufacturing Company

This session will cover the benefits, issues, and solutions to problems in the move from distributed to centralized computing for domestic and international locations. While the key enabling technologies are Citrix and thin clients, consistent application and network performance and business user satisfaction can not be achieved and maintained unless the LANs, WANs, Servers, and end users are also properly configured, monitored, managed, and engaged... The experiences and current efforts of Bemis Manufacturing Company in this arena will be the basis for initiating questions, insights, and experiences from others participating in this session.
11:00 am Leadership Intelligence: Developing the Next Generation of IT Leaders
 

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.
11:45 am Lunch Served: Business Casual Deli Buffet
12:45 pm A Case Study: Plexus Global ERP Infrastructure Deployment
 

Sponsored by ASAP Software

David Lafferty
Corporate Director Technology Services
Plexus Corporation

In this breakout discussion, I will provide an overview of our technical infrastructure, key issues/constraints, and what we did to address them.  Through this effort, Plexus achieved a significant level of system reduction/consolidation and improved service levels.  Our sponsor/partner also helped us realize these benefits and point out some significant cost savings.
12:45 pm Centralization of Voice, Data and Video Services - A Case Study
 
Sponsored by Cisco

Allen Smith
CIO
Virchow Krause & Company

 Having recently completed an enterprise wide centralization of voice, data and video services, it will be my pleasure to facilitate a discussion of such a convergence.  Virchow Krause rolled out over 2,000 IP phones,  Unified Communications (Exchange, Voice Mail & Fax integration) and a new data infrastructure to eleven sites in only 8 months based on our window of availability (accounting season).   Executing a converged network and centralizing voice applications in eight months certainly takes significant planning and has an element of risk associated with it.  We will discuss what we felt were the cost savings and benefits accruing to Virchow Krause going into our rollout and what we actually experienced.  We will also discuss how we mitigated our associated security risks.  I look forward to facilitating a wide ranging discussion regarding convergence.
1:45 pm IT Governance-Building Strategic Partnerships with the Business
 

Mike Jackson
CIO
Rockwell International

IT Governance - the methods for making decisions and assigning accountability for the investment in and use of information technology - may be the single most important lever in improving the value your company gets from the use of IT.  The decisions made in designing and implementing IT governance will have a significant impact on the value received.  We'll discuss some of the benefits of effective governance and some design principles to customize governance to your situation to assure you attain those benefits.
2:45 pm Case Study: Building a Robust, Scalable Storage Infrastructure across Dual Datacenters
 

Sponsored by Datalink

Mark Jessup
Deputy Technology Director 
Northwestern Mutual 

Northwestern Mutual - Milwaukee Wisconsin (NM) will discuss how they moved from a single datacenter computing environment to a dual datacenter computing environment, and how that provided exciting opportunities and challenges for NM's ever growing storage infrastructure.   The discussion will focus on the storage infrastructure configurations and how those evolved as they transitioned from a single datacenter (pre-2004) to today's dual datacenter environment.  They will share key storage project deliverables that enabled them to leverage the dual datacenters and how those provide improved storage services and cost savings to the organization.  They will also discuss a current effort that is utilizing storage and server virtualization to improve business continuity for NM's open systems platforms. 
2:45 pm Video Conferencing: How it can Impact your Bottom Line
 

Sponsored by Meridian IT

Ron Schlicht
Director of Information Technology
Skogens Festival Foods

 This interactive breakout session will focus on how the Skogens operation addressed the dynamics of their dispersed management team, the need for more standardized training, better communication and even a way to leverage in-house expertise to cut costs and drive revenues in their rapidly growing Wisconsin based grocery store chain.  Get a behind-the-scene look at the forces that drove the Festival Foods management team to invest in this technology.  You will learn from their experience and perhaps gain a different perspective on the value of video conferencing.  Learn how their ROI on this project is not only measured in reduced costs, but also in how they can give their guests a better shopping experience, for “not a lotta money!”
3:45 pm CIO Panel Presentation
  Join these industry leaders in an interactive discussion moderated by InformationWeek. Hear what issues are facing today's CIO's and learn how they are resolving them. This panel discussion provides a rare opportunity to hear first hand whats on the mind of these local CIO's.
 

Chris Murphy
Senior Executive Editor
InformationWeek

Jeff Marshall
SVP and CIO
Kohl’s Corporation


Scott Ranson
CIO
Brookdale Senior Living

Sam Valanju
CIO
Johnson Controls


Vicki Petit
Vice President, IS
KI


Bentley Curran
VP Global IT
Brady Corporation
4:30 pm Closing Remarks, Cocktail Reception with Hors d'oeuvres
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