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The CFO and IT Value Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Hotel
in San Francisco on September 29-October 2, 2002.



CFO's IT Value Conference Will Focus On:

  • Using an IT Balanced Scorecard
  • Assessing the relative value of Shared Services vs. Business Process Outsourcing
  • Working with the CIO to develop sound business cases for new IT spending
  • Weighing the trade-offs between best-of-breed solutions and standardization on one vendor
  • Conducting post-implementation audits on IT programs
  • Measuring the immeasurable, such as increasing the knowledge base or cross-functional collaboration
  • Using Web services to slash systems integration costs
  • Setting ROI frameworks for CRM, ERP, and SCM (supply chain management) solutions
  • Reducing uncertainty about the benefits of IT spending
  • Finding quantitative representation for risk, intangibles, and quality that can be rolled up into ROI figures
  • Managing efforts to achieve common data definitions and analytical processes

Robert Kaplan, Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School and Chairman of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, will examine how the Balanced Scorecard system of Performance Measurement and Strategic Management has transformed notions of valuation over the last decade. Dr. Kaplan will discuss how to apply this extraordinary framework to IT strategy: Using the Balanced Scorecard to create a strategy-focused IT organization; How strategy-focused organizations achieve breakthrough performance; Creating an IT strategy map of linked objectives, aligned with business unit strategy; Communicating IT and business strategy to employees; and Reporting and managing IT strategy.

 Bennett Stewart, Senior Partner at Stern Stewart & Co., will examine these vital questions: How IT create or destroy shareholder value? How should a CFO best evaluate an investment in IT, and how can the IT department be organized, measured, and motivated to maximize its performance? Should IT be outsourced, and how should that fit into an overall strategy of business transformation outsourcing? In his remarks, Bennett Stewart will discuss these and other IT valuation issues from the point of view of the CFO and the investment community.

 Janet Brutschea Haugen, SVP & CFO of Unisys, will present a case study on how to invest in new systems, set priorities, achieve ROI on “hard costs” while reducing IT spending in a multi-year strategy.


Other Featured Speakers:
Stephen McGowan - CFO & Executive VP, Sun Microsystems
Raj Rajaji - EVP & CFO, Manugistics
Shafeen Charania - Director, Business Value Group, Microsoft
Roger Millay - SVP & CFO, Airgas
Alex Estevez - CFO & Secretary, DataStream
Marina Levinson - VP & CIO, Palm
Dale Messick - SVP & CFO, Worldspan
Lowell Robinson former CFO, HotJobs
Randy Stone - VP & CIO, Veradyne
 Steve Taylor - CFO, Legacy Marketing Group
Ron Markezich - General Manager, Finance & Admin. IT, Microsoft
Ivan Feinseth - SVP & Investment Officer, Wachovia Securities
Mary Rhodes - Leader, Supply Management Solutions, D&B
Bill McNee - Managing Partner, Saugatuck Technology
Richard Smith - Partner, Accenture
Steve Holbrook - Program Director, Emerging E-business Standards, IBM
Scott Leibs - Senior Editor (Technology), CFO Magazine
Stephen Timme - President, FinListics Solutions and Adjunct Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marge Breya - VP, Industry Solutions, Sun Microsystems
Dave Martin - SVP Finance, Charles Schwab
Joe Clark - SVP & CTO, US Operations, Fujitsu Consulting
Bob Sanguedolce - VP, Customer Support Technology, eBay
Dick Warren - CFO, Olympic Health Management
Scott Fischer - Director, Financial Planning & Administration, Solectron
Edward Sander, Jr. - VP, CRM Product Marketing, SAP



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