IT Strategies: The Why & How

This one day conference will give you a unique insight into how a diverse set of organisations not only developed their IT Strategy but also how they went about delivering them.

1. Presentation: Lynne Nicholson, HM Land Registry (Presentation)
2. Presentation: Balaji Anbil, Centrica (Presentation)
3. Presentation: Gill Furlong, Essex County Council (Presentation)
4. Presentation: Rob Pringle, Gazprom Marketing & Trading (Presentation)
5. Presentation: Simon Turner, Haymarket (Presentation)
6. Presentation: Rohit Talwar, CEO, Fast Future (Presentation)
7. Presentation: Chris Woodhouse, Forum Facilitator (Presentation)

Each organisation has its own set or restraints, requirements and culture such as - risk adverse, highly regulated, centrally controlled with imposed changes or risk hungry.

Combine this with strategic Business requirements - enabling better Business decision making, doing more with less, delivering Business agility - and you have an IT Strategy that has to deliver against Business needs whilst working within boundaries of an organisation's culture.

How is a strategy developed; how is it refreshed, maintained, translated into technologies, systems and processes, and delivered? Who influences and sets it? Where does expertise in strategy building come from? And is it proactive or reactive to changing business needs and technological developments?

Book your place now to:

• Hear real-life experiences from global Enterprise IT professionals on: delivering mass data analysis, implementing google apps and developing new revenue streams
• Find answers to your questions around designing, implementing and measuring IT strategy
• Understand what others are doing and the benefits they're experiencing
• Network with over 100 Enterprise IT peers
• Pose questions to an expert Q&A Panel

Simon Turner, Group IT Director, Haymarket Media Group: Moving to Google Apps: The decision to move and the benefits reaped.

Rob Pringle, Director of Global IT, Gazprom: IT Strategy in a fast growing energy marketing and trading company.

Gill Furlong, Head of IS Strategy, Essex County Council: Strategy Imposed: How Essex County Council's IT department reacts to change and reorganisation.

Mike Hainey, Head of Data Analytics, HM Revenue & Customs: HMRCs 'Connect' project has been used to uncover hidden relationships between people, organisations and data. Hear Mike describe their strategy, and use, of bulk data analytics.

Balaji Anbil, Strategy Manager, Centrica: Leveraging Core Systems: Playing a part in planning and setting strategy.

Lynne Nicholson, Product Manager, HM Land Registry: Register Extract Service: How the Real IT Award-winning project delivered benefits.

Rohit Talwar, CEO, FastFuture: Rohit will deliver a keynote presentation on aliging Future IT Strategies to Evolving Business Needs.

Attend this conference to listen to the real world approaches taken by your peers to deliver IT Strategies in an economically challenging environment that is seeing rapid technology change. Understand the decision making process taken when developing IT Strategies and the practicalities of delivering the strategy.

Provisional discussion areas include:

- How strategy is set and evolves. What is the process used to deliver it?
- Setting and maintaining IT strategy in practice
- Doing more with less
- Doing new things - expanding and diversifying the business
- Enabling business decision-making and business change

Presentations include:

• The Corporate IT Forum 2013 Strategy Survey findings
• Moving to Google Apps: The decision to move and the benefits reaped
• Strategy in a risk-averse organisation and delivery, measurement and evaluation
• Strategy Imposed: How a Council's IT department reacts to change and reorganisation
• Leveraging Core Systems: Playing a part in planning and setting strategy
• How a Real IT Award-winning project delivered benefits and a new revenue stream

Attendance is free for Corporate IT Forum members. Non-members* can attend at a cost of just £195+VAT.
*Non-members must be from organisations that meet criteria required for membership of The Forum.