Creating IT-Smart Business Leaders

Friday, May 7, 2010
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
The Paul Merage School of Business, SB Room 117

$25 – General Public
Register by April 29


In these digital times, businesses are being challenged to leverage technology and build more intelligent organizations. Successful leaders must develop the capability to recognize and seize new technology-driven opportunities. The creation of IT-smart business leaders who understand how to manage technology as an organizational asset is vital. As a result, the “IT-Business partnership” needs to be redefined.

Please join us for an engaging discussion over breakfast featuring Susan Cramm, speaking about her new book, 8 Things We Hate About IT: How to Move Beyond Frustrations to Form a New Partnership, and a panel discussion among senior business and IT execs moderated by Professor Vijay Gurbaxani. This breakfast series is sponsored by the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at The Paul Merage School of Business. CRITO is a leading think tank focused on helping companies navigate the challenges of adapting to and succeeding in the information economy.

We hope you can join this exciting conversation about how to reinvent
IT-business collaboration and drive change.

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Paid registered guests will receive a copy of Susan’s new book.

Click here for directions to The Paul Merage School of Business.

For more information, contact Maureen Vasquez at 949-824-1323 or mbvasque@uci.edu.

SPEAKER
Susan Cramm
President
ValueDance®


MODERATOR
Vijay Gurbaxani
Director, CRITO
Taco Bell Endowed
Professor of
Information Systems,
The Paul Merage
School of Business


PANELISTS

Dawn Trautman
Senior Vice President,
IT & Strategic Planning
Pacific Life

John Kontos
Vice President,
Institutional
Markets Channel
Pacific Life

Janice Sutton
Assistant Vice President,
Marketing & Distribution
Pacific Life

Bill Martineau
Assistant Vice President,
Application Development
Pacific Life