Past Events

ITLN Forum - May 17, 2013

In the past year, COE’s IT Leadership Network forums have explored lean thinking, Agile methods, culture change, risk management, and the focus shift to people. We’ve offered the tools driving the transformation and the tactics for implementing change. But what happens once you’ve launched a successful implementation? How do you ensure it will stick beyond your involvement for many years to come?

Join us for May’s ITLN forum when we present a panel discussion on sustaining the change with leaders who have done just that. They'll offer insights on successes, setbacks and lessons learned in the process.

Moderator: Peter Ward, co-director, COE

Confirmed panelists:

• Bruno Guicardi, COO, CI&T
• Amy Tomaszewski, AVP operational excellence, and Todd McDonald, AVP IT applications development, Grange Insurance
• Sean Kiner, director of customer experience, RelayHealth
• Brian Janki, VP and general manager, Rigid Packaging and Services, North America Greif Inc.

Details:

• Location: Mason Hall 2nd floor rotunda, Fisher College of Business
• Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Register now!

ITLN Forum - Nov. 16, 2012

Featured speaker: Jeff Bender, VP, IT risk and compliance, Capital One

COE member Capital One in recent years has grown into one of the largest financial services businesses in the nation, bolstered by banking acquisitions and a booming credit card business. With that expanding scope comes an even greater need for a keen eye on information technology risk and compliance.

Bender gave an inside look at how its IT department has developed a culture of risk management founded in lean and business process management principles amid an aggressive expansion in recent years.

Bender, with Capital One since 1998, previously worked for accounting giant Pricewaterhouse Coopers. A frequent speaker at technology and internal audit organizations, he has a bachelor’s in business administration in management information systems from the University of Notre Dame along with CISSP, CISM and CISA certifications.

ITLN Forum - Sept. 21, 2012

Featured speakers:

Jon Stahl (pictured left), CEO, Cleveland-based LeanDog
Matt Barcomb (right), Agile coach, LeanDog

Conversations about lean often turn immediately to eliminating waste. While that's an important principle, IT veterans Stahl and Barcomb illustrated other key principles underlying lean thinking. The forum focused on the three principles to facilitating organizational culture change.

• First is "Amplify Learning," reviewing concepts and techniques that can help build a continuously learning organization.
• Next is "Decide as late as possible," which will help attendees simplify planning and budgeting processes.
• And finally, "Build integrity in" looks at decision-making practices for leaders at all levels.

ITLN Forum - June 8, 2012

Featured presentations:

Lean management in Hewlett-Packard’s delivery system
Srini Koushik, chief development officer of HP’s Enterprise Services
9:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Developing and supporting IT solutions today requires a shift from standardization and factory based development to mass customization. Yesterday’s command-and-control management style has given way to a model built on lean management and software development. Koushik gives an inside look at HP’s industrialized delivery model, an innovative structure that delivers better results by combining unique management and operational models with a focus on the people that drive it. (Click here for a white paper on Koushik’s topic)

Is lean management timeless? Observations from the agile field
Sanjiv Augustine, president, LitheSpeed
12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Agile development methods are helping cut development lead times, improve product quality and trim engineering costs, leading to increased customer and associate satisfaction and less waste. In reality, these methods are timeless lean principles that focus on customer value, respect for people and continuous improvement. Augustine, president of Alexandria, Va.-based training and consulting firm LitheSpeed, will share how agile teams are implementing lean management at the project, program and enterprise levels to deliver outstanding customer value.

ITLN Forum - April 3, 2012

Featured speaker: Mike Orzen, co-author, Lean IT 

They might be blips on a screen or glitches in a system, but waste and inefficiency can run rampant in information technology as much as a shop floor. But in a realm of largely invisible processes, where does lean thinking find its place?

The Center for Operational Excellence and member Nationwide Insurance partnered to bring to the company's downtown Columbus headquarters Mike Orzen (pictured left), a lean IT guru with more than 25 years experience coaching and consulting. Co-author of the book Lean IT, Orzen outlined the value lean can bring to IT with a wide-ranging presentation packed with case studies and deployment strategies.