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Web Conferences


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Driving Innovation from the CIO’s Office: Steering Innovation Portfolios through Superior Innovation Strategy
October 23, 2013 – 1:00 p.m., EDT

High impact innovation requires optimal choices. An innovation strategy is the first step towards making such choices. All business leaders, including the CIOs, make three strategic choices whether consciously or subconsciously:
The result of these choices is an innovation portfolio. Are you making the right choices in your innovation strategy? Is your innovation portfolio optimal or sub optimal? This web conference will explain the choices involved in innovation strategy and how to audit your own innovation portfolio. Join Ankush Chopra, IDC Adjunct Research Advisor, and Joseph Pucciarelli, IDC Vice President and IT Executive Advisor, for this complimentary one-hour web conference.


Managing Outsourcing Providers for Maximum Return
November 13, 2013 – 12:00 p.m., EST

There can be little doubt that IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing have become standard business practices. However, in the past decade, agreements have changed from single-provider contracts to complex, multi-vendor arrangements. The need to balance relationships among multiple, sometimes - competitive providers now requires buying organizations to take steps to adopt new management models. Buyers with a mature outsourcing capability — including the ability to manage complex outsourcing deals with many providers — will find that they retain a significant competitive advantage over peer organizations.

This IDC web conference explores the ways that companies have historically managed outsourcing and how organizations need to adapt to the changing nature of outsourcing relationships. This session will provide guidance to IT executives on ways to develop their governance and relationship management capabilities to wring more value from outsourcing contracts. Join Ron Babin, IDC Adjunct Research Advisor, and Joseph Pucciarelli, IDC Vice President and IT Executive Advisor, for this complimentary one-hour web conference which will lay out specific steps that buyers should take to strengthen their outsourcing capabilities.


Industry Events


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Next Generation Retail Summit
October 7-9, 2013 – Dallas, Texas
The NG Retail Summit brings together 65 senior decision makers and business leaders from across the region.
The event aims to solve your key business challenges. In particular, the ability to network and learn from industry peers through essential business conversation shaped by three unique drivers of opportunity - research, engagement and environment.  IDC Group Vice President, Bob Parker, and IDC Retail Insights Research Director, Leslie Hand, will participate.




CIO Summit Europe
November 5-7, 2013 - Madrid, Spain
The CIO Europe Summit 2013 will once again serve as an arena for senior level executives to engage in clear and focused dialogue with their peers and examine their management objectives in a relaxed and vibrant environment. Influential corporate leaders will discuss relevant issues that will improve their businesses and help them streamline and take advantage of the essential IT initiatives that the current business culture requires. While cutting costs and leveraging spending are always important elements in an economic downturn, it is up to CIOs to ensure their companies are utilizing the best possible products and services. In an increasingly “sink or swim” environment, the CIO Summit brings together CIOs whose vision and eagerness to improve separate them from the rest of the pack. IDC senior vice president, Meredith Whalen, and IT executive advisor, David McNally, will participate.


[Note: Event descriptions are paraphrased from information on the events' web sites and are not meant to represent IDC's evaluation of the events.]