Previous Practicum Dinner - Executive Education
A Barn-Raising; Crafting The Next Generation Data Center
As many companies try to scale to satisfy growing business requirements, the realities of today’s competitive climate keeps changing their game. No where is that more true than within IT operations.
In the face of increasing “grow-but-stay-cheap-and-flexible” pressures, today’s senior IT leaders must pull those operating environments out of the industrial age and into a new era more aligned with today’s real advancements in technologies and processes. These new developing strategies must now assure not only a more managed approach to growth and a more leveraged use of resources, but also improved value-generating flexibility, as well as especially reducing the ever-expanding dollar-consuming carbon footprint.
This is not easy,…and it is a task made even worse if you try to do it alone. However, help is on the way.
The “ CIO Practicum ” (part of the nationally acclaimed “ CIO Solutions Gallery ”) is an ongoing forum where senior IT leaders come together in a comfortable dinner setting to collaboratively attack common issues. The participants share their experiences and insights in a very interactive and lively “Amish barn-raising” like format focused on actual real-life situations. This provocative program is uniquely organized around CIO “peer learning” and collective joint problem-solving, and it has received extensive praise.
Who Should Attend
The series is targeted toward CIOs and/or other senior executives in the technology and operations leadership community. It helps its participants build an improved and creative personal network of peers and executives devoted to sharing best practices, renewing their skills on an ongoing basis, and raising the level of technical “literacy” and effectiveness within their organizations.
Time
5 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Agenda
| 5:00 pm | Registration and Welcoming Reception |
| 6:15 pm |
Welcome and Initial Session Remarks
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| 6:30 pm |
Setting A Context For The Evening’s Issue
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| 6:45 pm |
Presentation of the Evening’s Problem
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| 7:15 pm |
Working Dinner Over dinner each table of participants will act as a separate workgroup, discussing the presented problem. Each workgroup will then derive a series of agreed-upon next steps for a recommended solution. |
| 8:30 pm | Report Backs |
| 9:00 pm | Adjourn |
Cost
Free to our invited guests.
Sponsors
For companies that serve the intended audience and also wish to learn from this innovative series, program sponsorship opportunities are available. Vendors participate through sponsorship.
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Contact Information
Amanda Brahier
Program Manager
Executive Education
Fisher College
of Business
110 Pfahl Hall
280 West Woodruff Avenue
Columbus, OH
43210-1144
Phone: (614) 292-8575
Fax: (614) 292-6644
E-mail: brahier_2@fisher.osu.edu