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Executive
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Crafting an Effective Strategy
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8/24/2009 2:30 p.m. |
Crafting an effective strategy for your organization is always challenging. The current economic climate has sharpened the focus on identifying business drivers, having clear organizational goals and ensuring you have the right people to meet those goals. This session focuses on ways to align the perspectives and competencies of your executive management team with your organization’s strategic goals. We provide a framework for evaluating executive resources and determining how those resources align with your organization’s goals. We look at strategies to synchronize the two and help you determine when executive search strategies should be considered as part of your overall alignment plan. You will gain a new perspective on assessing your organization’s strategic planning efforts and insights in making those efforts more effective. |
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Situational Leadership
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8/24/2009 4:00 p.m. |
Leadership styles can bring about both positive and negative consequences depending on a given situation. Determining the “best” type of leadership to use (and how to adjust accordingly) for an array of situational variables is key to successful management. This session covers how leaders make choices, which ultimately convey their effectiveness, improve job satisfaction and increase positive performance. This “new” style of leadership is viewed as highly successful, and those who follow the situational model are leading the industry. You’ll leave this session with a clear path for effectively strengthening your situational leadership knowledge and developing a plan for successfully applying that knowledge to varied situations. MINI-MBA SESSION. |
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G100 Event Recap: Weathering the Storm and Cloud Computing
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8/25/2009 9:00 a.m. |
Join members of the G100 CIO Advisory Board as they provide a recap of the G100 CIO event held on Monday, August 24 in conjunction with ILTA '09. There are two focuses, one is the implications of what has become the longest recession since World War II and what you can do to help your firm weather the current storm. There will be a discussion on what CIOs are doing in response to current economic conditions. The second focus is where cloud computing fits into your short- and long-term strategic plans. |
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Improving Operational Excellence with Best Practice and Technology
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8/25/2009 11:00 a.m. |
Many of us are faced with the challenge of aligning our business model to our organization’s strategic goals. Now add in the requirements of managing costs, monitoring performance, improving service delivery, increasing profits and exceeding client’s expectations, particularly in this tough economy, and you’ve got the formula for operational excellence. And, of course, as the firm’s IT leader, you need to ensure that technology plays an integral role in all of this. Our roundtable panel shares their real-life experiences along with the lessons they’ve learned while trying to achieve operational excellence in various organizational models. They will encourage you to share your own successes and challenges, and they’ll offer suggestions on how you can assess your situation and develop achievable best practices of maximum value to your firm. You will leave with practical, executable ideas to apply in your organization to help you achieve operational excellence. Be ready to interact. MINI-MBA SESSION. |
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Service Delivery for Executives
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8/26/2009 1:30 p.m. |
We illustrate how to successfully align law firm’s business goals with related assets and resources on a global scale. A case study will be presented on how Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is implementing ITIL, NIST Best Practices and leading-edge technologies to improve customer satisfaction and operational performance in a challenging economy. The case study lays out how the firm has rank-ordered its service and cost priorities, set performance objectives for ROI and service metrics and measured them, employed benchmarking against peers, reoriented its staffing and service delivery model and used specific new technologies to achieve these goals. |
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Executive Image Coaching
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8/26/2009 3:30 p.m. |
Designed for those at the CIO/CTO/Director level and managers looking for ideas to help market themselves more effectively in their careers, this session is designed to help you. Represent yourself, your position and your firm effectively when working with clients or vendors; be perceived as a business person, not just an IT person; communicate the case for IT investments within your firm (to the partnership, CFO or executive director); define your and your department's communications style and standards; communicate appropriately whether on the phone, in person or via e-mail. Just as important are key points and takeaways on what NOT to do when you're in a meeting, sending an e-mail, writing on Facebook/Twitter or a blog, announcing new IT policies or initiatives and interacting with the broad range of people and personalities that make up your firm. |
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International Business Strategy in Small Doses
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8/27/2009 9:00 a.m. |
Technology has enabled people and organizations to manage projects and operations across time zones and country boundaries, and maintain regular interaction with people of different cultures and languages. As a result, the distinctions of the past that separated people and businesses have become imprecise. The distinction between the professional and the personal, the public and the private, and the proprietary and the communal is similarly blurring. Organizations that can embrace the blending of these worlds will successfully navigate the opportunities that will emerge. Technology has a vital role to play in forming the bridge between the newly revealed and the newly constructed facets of our worlds. |
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Leveraging Audio Visual / Teleconferencing for Executives
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8/27/2009 10:30 a.m. |
Although audio visual and teleconferencing technologies are not cheap, the return on investment (ROI) can be significant. We focus on cutting-edge AV technologies and best practices, and how they can enhance your firm's communications and conferencing capabilities while recovering costs. From the business side of communications technology, learn how to leverage vendor opportunities in a tough economy. Learn how AV can play a part in revenue generation (e.g., CLE training, client studio work, etc.) while marketing internal and external services. |
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