Roundtable on Digital Strategies: Collaboration
Membership in the Roundtable on Digital Strategies delivers an ongoing series of business dialogues at which CIOs and top-level executives of American and European corporations share new insight into the enabling role of information technology in meeting current business challenges. In focused discussions that cut across organizations and industries, Roundtable participants from noncompeting member corporations examine meaningful business issues they have in common. They come away from the day-long experience with new ideas and new approaches to specific challenges—the kind of creative assessment that arises only from diverse perspectives. More ›
Technology, Transformation, and Collaborative Leadership
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
February 17, 2010 • Houston, TX • hosted by Sysco
The Americas Chapter of the Roundtable on Digital Strategies met to discuss the role of information technology in driving and enabling corporate change. Given the availability of new technologies, participants considered opportunities for the CIO and the IT organization to play a major role in changing how corporations operate. More ›
Topics: Change, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Consumerization of IT, Emerging Markets, Governance, Information Technology, Leadership, Social Media, Trust
Global Supply Chain Management: Shifting Strategies
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
October 15, 2009 • Frederick, MD • hosted by Bechtel
A joint meeting of the Americas and European Chapters. The economic tumult of the last two years has brought additional fragility to the many interdependencies of global supply chains. Given this backdrop, the roundtable focused on preparing for the emerging set of global supply chain challenges, with special focus on risks inherent in current low-cost country human resources, services, material, and product sourcing. Hosted by Bechtel. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Globalization, International, Supply Chain, Trust
Web 2.0 and the Corporation
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
June 19, 2007 • Palisades, NY • hosted by IBM
CIOs and other senior execs from 3M, BT Group, JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, DISA, Eastman Chemical, IBM, ING, Ogilvy, and Time Warner Cable were joined by academics from Tuck for this roundtable. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Computing, Consumerization of IT, Corporate Communications, Customer, Information Technology, Marketing, Mobile, Risk, Social Media, Technology, Video
Strategic Partnering: Managing Joint Ventures and Alliances
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
February 28, 2006 • Raleigh-Durham, NC • hosted by Cisco Systems, Inc.
CIOs and other senior execs from Bechtel, Cargill, Cisco, Dell, Eastman Chemical, Hasbro, IBM, and McKinsey were joined by academics from Tuck and Columbia for this roundtable. More ›
Topics: Asia, Collaboration, Emerging Markets, Globalization, Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions, Process, Strategy
Information Security and Privacy: At Odds with Speed and Collaboration?
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
May 25, 2004 • Hanover, NH • hosted by Tuck
CIOs and security executives from Cargill, Cisco, Citigroup, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Eaton, Fidelity, General Motors, Hasbro, IBM, Owens Corning, and Staples joined by academics from Tuck, Harvard, Dartmouth and Bentley for this roundtable. This event was the seventh summit in the Thought Leadership Summit on Digital Strategies series. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Information Security, Privacy
Elusive Integration: Making the Link between Sales and Operations Planning
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
February 17, 2004 • Dallas, TX • hosted by Cisco Systems
Mapping customer delivery requirements against the realities of supply chain capability is an endless source of friction in many organizations. Demand forecasts are constantly changing, customer needs are ever more specific, and service requirements are growing in every industry. Supply chain integration has long promised to smooth the wrinkles between sales and operations planning. Yet this remains a thorny problem for companies at all points in a value chain. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Controls / Metrics, Operations, Process, Sales, Supply Chain, Trust
Enabling a Customer-Focused Organization
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
September 9, 2003 • South Bend, IN • hosted by Whirlpool Corporation
What does it mean to be customer focused? How do you engender customer-centricity in a corporation? Understanding what it means to have a customer-focused organization and how to enable that focus was the topic of the fifth Thought Leadership Summit on Digital Strategies, hosted by Whirlpool Corporation in South Bend, IN. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Customer, Data, Organization, Services
Collaborative Product Generation
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
May 13, 2003 • Cleveland, OH • hosted by Eaton
As developing and bringing new products to market becomes increasingly complex, why, how, and with whom should companies leverage collaboration? The roundtable discussion - "Collaborative Product Generation" - examined how companies leverage partnerships through information integration and collaboration - improving products, driving down cycle times, and reducing supply chain costs. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Customer, Innovation, Product Development
Channel Management Strategies: Digital Partnering
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
August 6, 2002 • San Jose, CA • hosted by Cisco
This roundtable discussion focused on the promise of using digital technologies to redefine channel management strategies. Participants examined how manufacturing/producer firms and retailers/channel partners are reinventing their relationships by exploiting technologies that enhance collaboration, coordination, and rapid two-way exchange of mission critical information and debated best practices on the partnering, business processes, and information sharing aspects of relationships between manufacturers and the resellers of their products. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Data, Marketing, Process, Strategy
Real-Time Profit Optimization: Coordinating Demand and Supply Chain Management
Roundtable on Digital Strategies
January 14, 2002 • San Jose, CA • hosted by Cisco
Linking the innovations in supply-chain management with the technology-enabled capability to serve customers in a more targeted manner is key to driving profit optimization. This summit discussed the state-of-the-art, and the future, of demand chain and the supply chain interaction. It addressed the use of digital technologies to improve demand and supply chain coordination and make better use of market information. Discussions covered the promise of using networked technologies for managing and enhancing profit by quickly responding to changing markets - matching supply and demand through more accurate forecasting, improved use of market information, rapid product/service configuration and better coordination of pricing and the supply chain. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Data, Information Technology, Outsourcing, Supply Chain
