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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Presentation Speaker Reading
The Future of IT:
Creating Strategic Value from IT		 Ross The IT Unit of the Future:
Creating Strategic Value from IT
Digital Business Models
of Top-Performing Firms		 Weill

What Is Your Digital Business Model?

The Business Models Investors Prefer
Embracing (or Bracing for) Social Media:
A Case Study in the Travel Sector		 Orlikowski Leveraging Social Media for Customer Engagement: An Experiment at BT
Rethinking Management in a Digital Economy—Getting creative
with organizational structures		 Weill  
Business Complexity—
Shifting IT from problem to solution		 Mocker  
Meeting the Tsunami of Unstructured Data: The perils and promise of enterprise search Andersen  
Creating a World-class
Analytical Organization		 Tanriverdi  
Working Smarter on a Digitized Platform Ross

Working Smarter:
The Next Change Management Challenge

Driving Value from the Data Deluge:
Lessons from PepsiAmericas

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Presentation Speaker Reading
Global Governance of Digital Capabilities:
Exploiting Digitized Platforms
for Global Growth		 Reynolds Enabling Global Growth with Digitization:
The Rise of the Cosmopolitan Firm
Creating Value from IT and Operations
at State Street Corp.		 Weill with Perretta and Phalen  
Mergers and Acquisitions:
Is Your IT Organization Ready?		 Tanriverdi  
Harnessing the Potential of Mobile
in the Firm		 Quaadgras Harnessing the Consumerization of IT
Realizing the Business Benefits of Cloud Computing (or, exactly how do we find that Silver Lining?) Mooney  
Total Digitization: The Final Frontier…? Weill Globalizing IT Operations at BMW:
Transparency and People
Staff and Guest Bios
Staff and Guest Bios