Main Conference, Thursday, June 26, 2008  

8:15-9:15

Keynote: Creating the Right Team Environment to Motivate Collaboration

Arthur Shelley, Author, The Organisational Zoo: A Survival Guide to Workplace Behaviour, Global Knowledge Manager, Cadbury Schweppes

 

Pushing for collaboration is like fighting for peace! You get some controlled compliance, but no real commitment or ownership of a self-sustaining solution. Successful collaboration flows when the benefits to those involved and those around them are greater than the alternatives. Understanding the motivations and behaviours of individuals and small groups provides the foundation to move from a push strategy to a pull environment. The use of animal metaphors to understand the fit of a team member to a role enables each member to work productively and network more effectively beyond the project team. Project managers using these concepts have smoother delivery paths, better project outcomes and more fun at work.

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 Main Conference, Friday, June 27, 2008

8:00-9:00

Keynote: Creating IT Order out of M&A Chaos

Merger and Acquisition activity is at an all time high and this presentation will give you specific ideas on how to thrive and survive a merger or acquisition. However, even if you current challenge isn't an M&A transaction, chances are you will be called upon to transform the development organization and reach levels of improved performance. This session will present a case study of IT transformation including the importance of motivating the staff, engaging management, assessing your performance, creating an IT strategy map and the use of a balance scorecard.

• Ideas to achieve staff and management engagement
  
• How to do an honest assessment of your team and capabilities

Sue Powers, CIO ,Travelport GDS
Sue Powers is Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Travelport GDS, overseeing global product, application development and initiatives of the Worldspan and Galileo GDSs and in addition, airline services. In 2006, the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) awarded its top honor to Sue, the Global CIO of the Year Award.

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9:00-10:00

Keynote: Success Factors for Changing

This session will examine organizational change from the perspective of a career change agent. The focus will be on actionable results for success, the project manager as a critical success factor, common reasons for failure, and recommendations for jump-starting change initiatives which have stalled. The presentation will also include multiple examples from the speaker's career, highlighting failures as well as successes, ranging from small to large companies to both private and public organizations.

• Actionable steps for success
  
• The project manager as a critical success factor
  
• Sustaining (or regaining lost) momentum

Mark Dronzek, CIO, Family Health International
Mark has held the position of Chief Information Officer at Family Health International (FHI) since October 2006, and is responsible for Global Systems and Infrastructure in over thirty-five countries (primarily developing countries in Africa, India, and Asia). As a part of FHI’s globalization, this includes the deployment of global infrastructure (often using VSAT) and data architecture in advance of enterprise financial and business systems.