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New England BEA Dev2Dev User GroupDate: August 07 2007 Time: 5:30pm - 8:00pm Location: CellExchange Riverside Conference Room1 Main St. Cambridge, MA 02142 Directions: to CellExchange Description: IT-Enabled Sustainable Innovation in a Flat and Fluid World Over the past half century, IT has provided enormous value as a tool for improving enterprise efficiency. This will continue to be an essential role for IT. However, IT will provide even greater value in the future by serving as a tool for enabling sustainable innovation within and across enterprises. In fact, because society is fast becoming increasingly flat and fluid, it is imperative for IT to move beyond its traditional mandate of bottom-line cost management to a new role in top line value creation; instead of focusing almost exclusively on optimizing internal efficiencies, IT must also support the business goal of achieving a competitive edge via sustainable innovation. IT-enabled sustainable innovation may sound good, but is it sound? After all, innovation is a cognitive ability and, while technology can be deemed innovative, only a human can truly innovate. So, to realize this vastly more ambitious objective, IT must embark on a transformational journey to harness and integrate the uniquely human aspects of innovation. This is where SOA and social computing, aka Web 2.0, take center stage. Service Orientation and SOA will provide the architectural foundation for sustainable service delivery while social computing will play a pivotal role in humanizing IT through consumer-led IT innovation. Unleashing the synergy between SOA and Web 2.0 will culminate in fueling the rise of the nascent “Consumerization of the Enterprise”. Agenda:
Logistics: For more information, contact at Burc Oral or visit: http://groups.google.com/group/nebugSpeakers: Annie Shum, the year 2004 A.A. Michelson Award winner, is currently the DCTO, VP of Technology & Innovation at BEA Systems and a member of the CMG Board of Directors. Annie has an extensive understanding of computer architecture, design principles and performance analytics (for multiple platforms spanning mainframe, distributed, Web etc) developed during a R&D career that has spanned over two decades and included dozens of publications. She is internationally recognized as one of the innovative analytical minds and top ranking queuing model experts for performance analysis and capacity planning. In addition, she is a dynamic invited keynote/thought-leadership speaker at myriad conferences, both at home and abroad. After earning a doctorate degree in Computer Science from Harvard University, Annie was the VP of Science & Technology at BGS Systems. Upon BMC’s acquisition of BGS in 1998, Annie was appointed the Corporate Architect (in the role of Chief Scientist) to focus on the advancement of predictive analytics along with the exploration, research and analysis of emerging technologies including Web services, SOA, RFID, CEP and event driven business analytics. Since September 2005, Annie has assumed the responsibilities of VP of Technology & Innovation for BEA Systems. Under the umbrella of SOA thought-leadership, her primary responsibilities include new service oriented product designs; white papers and presentations. Annie’s over-arching interest is in creating products with highly interactive tacit interactions, patterns detections and relational visualizations towards “Actionable Insights On Demand”. The underlying goal is “democratizing” collaborative computing by empowering business users to compose/assemble user generated and actionable information. |
