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Topics for Sponsorship
Breakfast Briefing schedule
Internet Security
Protecting critical information assets in a world of interconnected technologies challenges current security management practices, tools, and methodologies. Technologies for addressing these issues are becoming paramount to managers and key decision-makers who need to evaluate and manage the risk to their organisation's information assets.
Key Issues
- implementing cyber defence best practice
- understanding the new developments and advances that hackers are now making
- eSecurity is expensive: how can you justify it to the board?
- "I love you" virus caused $3bn worth of damage around the world: how can you ensure you will not be next?
- from hackers to information warriors: the intruders are no longer there just to make a point, netspionage is becoming big business
Business and Financial Reporting: measuring intangible assets and using non-financial performance metrics
A new report published by the US Financial and Accounting Standards Board has recognised the need for changes in the tradition business and financial reporting model. These changes may have been driven from the new economy, but are now making themselves felt across both old and new economies. Software to tackle this new challenge will now be invaluable.
Key Issues
- recognising intangible assets in balance statements
- measuring internally created intangible assets
systematic use of non-financial performance metrics
- disseminating more forward looking information
- satisfying investors needs and responding to pressure for better corporate governance
increasing risk management across the business
- transforming finance teams into a source of insight and advice
eProcurement
More and more companies are now recognising the benefits of eProcurement from facilitated price comparisons and speeded up invoice time and settlement to savings on direct and indirect purchasing costs. However, confusion, fear and lack of understanding is still putting off over three quarters of the UK's largest organisations. Education is the key and straightforward, easy to integrate technology is the enabler.
Key Issues - ordering, billing and payment online
- outlining process and cost savings
- eprocurment best practice and industry recommendations
- overcoming barriers to implementation
- collaborative commerce
- online trading exchanges and eMarketplaces
Supply Chain Analytics: measure, monitor, forecast, and manage supply chain-related business processes to obtain and leverage valuable supply chain information
Supply chain analytics enable a wide variety of capabilities and can provide the raw data and information needed both internally and outside the organisation. Companies can leverage analytic application solutions to achieve optimised business processes, and give users access to information that contribute to process and corporate-wide goals. Business intelligence is possible only through a common information foundation that offers visibility and enables collaboration for everyone who has a stake in the business processes.
Key Issues
- Sharing information about business activities on a real-time basis across the supply chain
- Building visibility into the supply chain
- Aligning your performance metrics to cross-organisational business processes
- Responding to market or customer demand in days and hours, not weeks
- Encouraging decision-making collaboration
Optimising your Integrated Supply Chain using Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)
The key to a company's competitive advantage is the ability to bring manufactured goods to customers within the delivery time promised. APS is an integral part of achieving this aim within an integrated supply chain. APS technology can deliver the cost saving benefits that supply chain solutions have long promised.
Key Issues
- increasing production
- reducing inventory levels
- improving on-time order delivery and customer satisfaction
- using a web-based APS to perform distributed scheduling and planning
- Collaborative Planning Forecasting with Replenishment (CPFR)
Making Wireless Connections in the Supply Chain: forging links to the extremities of the enterprise supply chain to reduce lead times, inventory and costs
Successful implementations of mobile projects across the UK manufacturing sector have shown that the technology is now available to provide practical, user-friendly applications that both staff and management can use effectively and efficiently. Throughout the sector, mobile technology can help companies achieve the cost reductions and efficiency improvements that they have been working hard towards for so long.
Key Issues
- technology and solutions overview
- cultural and management issues
- integrating existing technologies
- achieving successful implementation
- outlook for the future
Personalisation and privacy: maintaining the balance between profitability and data protection
We are in an age where the amount of data we can collect on our customers far exceeds anything we have been able to achieve or had to deal with to date. In addition, we expect our data to be secure from compromise, while developments in technology occur faster than we can decide on acceptable norms for conduct and ethical behaviour. Who owns data? How can we verify accuracy of data and verify that data are authentic? What are our values for privacy, data sharing and ethical responsibility? How can we ensure we continue to meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act?
Key Issues
- data integrity
- update on DPA
- global privacy practices and legislation
- data security
Mining for Gold: accessing and profiting from your organisation's customer data
Within every organisation there is a wealth of information about customers. Structuring it, organising and accessing it, however, can prove to be extremely difficult. Before you can even think about analysing this data and using it to build your business, you need to manage it. Technology solutions are now available that can help you do this.
Key Issues
- how to find out more about more of your customers and use this new information effectively
- tools of the trade: overview of data mining tools and what they do
- managing the flow of information into and out of your business
- data warehousing solutions
Achieving ROI for your Web Marketing Activity
In times of impending recession eMarketing initiatives must pass rigorous cost-benefit tests. Monitoring, measuring and reporting on your web marketing activities is essential, and also now
possible with a wealth on new technologies.
Key Issues
- Ad tracking, click-throughs and other measures
- how to measure the impact of increasing personalisation
- reaching your target customer base in the fewest possible clicks
- understanding how e-market segmentation works
- justifying web expenses in the long-term
If you can't find a topic here that reflects your messaging to your chosen target market, we will be happy to work with you to put together a bespoke programme. |
