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CEOs have been growing their companies through acquisition and extending their business interests to worldwide market,s and while efficiencies can be achieved by shifting operations across economies and optimizing global processes, it takes more than operational tweaks to make this growth work. Business leaders are realizing that optimizing talent in the more virtual organization with time zone, distance and cultural challenges is essential to harvesting innovation for revenue growth and achieving organizational potential.
Join us for the latest event in the Globally Integrated Enterprises learning track as IBM expert Scott Smith looks at a new initiative entitled "Enterprise Adaptability." The session will focus on the business drivers of social networking and collaborative technologies including how to increase adoption and measure return on investment as well as examples of real success.
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Presenters
Scott Smith is the HCM Partner with global responsibility for developing the solutions and business delivered by our Knowledge & Collaboration practitioners, who primarily focus on the transformation of work though building single destinations that integrate across employees, partners and customers. Scott is based in the US, and directly drives this work for IBM's Americas practice.
Douglas Heintzman is the Director of Strategy for IBM's Lotus Software division. In this capacity he is responsible for leading the team that helps design Lotus' over all strategic direction including business design and acquisitions. He is involved in government policy formulation on standards, open source and interoperability. He is the sponsorship executive for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition. Prior to this assignment he was the Director of Technical Strategy for IBM Software Group where he had responsibility for coordinating the overall technical strategy for Software Group as well as specific responsibility in the areas of government standards compliance, Linux and open source. He has represented IBM on various international standards and specifications bodies and was a director and the Chairman of the Board of the SyncML initiative. In the past 19 years Doug has held various positions in consultancy, sales and marketing, and technical engineering with IBM in both Canada and the US. Douglas holds a Masters in International Economic and Social Administration from the University of Grenoble France and a BAH in Political Studies from Queens University at Kingston Ontario Canada.
Language Fluency: English and French
Douglas Heintzman is the Director of Strategy for IBM's Lotus Software division. In this capacity he is responsible for leading the team that helps design Lotus' over all strategic direction including business design and acquisitions. He is involved in government policy formulation on standards, open source and interoperability. He is the sponsorship executive for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition. Prior to this assignment he was the Director of Technical Strategy for IBM Software Group where he had responsibility for coordinating the overall technical strategy for Software Group as well as specific responsibility in the areas of government standards compliance, Linux and open source. He has represented IBM on various international standards and specifications bodies and was a director and the Chairman of the Board of the SyncML initiative. In the past 19 years Doug has held various positions in consultancy, sales and marketing, and technical engineering with IBM in both Canada and the US. Douglas holds a Masters in International Economic and Social Administration from the University of Grenoble France and a BAH in Political Studies from Queens University at Kingston Ontario Canada.
Language Fluency: English and French