Description

Today organizations must sense changing situations and respond to these rapidly. They must understand the impact of business events in real-time, compare these against various scenarios, make sound decisions and take actions to counter competitive threats. Online, On time, On target is about reacting to these events proactively so organizations can stay ahead of their competition and thrive. It is about leveraging today’s emerging portal technologies, utilizing information, resources and people, to facilitate better decision velocity and making, and increase individual and team productivity.

This presentation reaches back into history to show how an organization under tremendous pressure built the equivalent of a modern day on demand solution, a portal, using the emerging technologies of the day. In June 1940, after the fall of France, Winston Churchill was facing defeat. Not only did he have to stave off an imminent enemy invasion but he had to quickly turn the UK economy around. This meant focusing slender resources on the immediate threat, unifying a disparate peacetime economy and putting it onto a war footing so that it could sustain total economic warfare, and directing its output into immediate military use.

The on demand solution helped do this by pulling the various military, industrial, and civilian establishments and communities together into a federation working towards this common cause. It integrated disparate facilities and information to create a sophisticated early warning system and executive dashboard driven by events, and closely linked with the supply-chain. Based on accurate and timely information and intelligence, Churchill and his organization were better able to understand what was going on in preparation for war, and also in the heat of battle. With the ever-changing battlefront they were better able to leverage all the resources at their disposal, and select the best tactics. They were also able to select the most promising strategies and projects, and make the best possible decisions. In the final outcome not only was the imminent invasion staved off but the groundwork laid to eventually defeat a much more powerful military opponent.

As today’s organizations move towards an on demand business using portal and e-business technologies, many of the challenges are the same. They need to be responsive enough to anticipate market conditions and customer needs, and react to business events; variable enough to manage multitude projects, resources, and costs; focused enough to manage the core business and leverage best-of-breed partners for the rest; resilient enough to keep the core business accessible, yet safe.

Audience

The presentation is targeted at people managing projects both inside and outside of I/T. No technical knowledge is required, and no prior knowledge of this topic.

Duration

60 minutes. Additional time is recommended for audience questions.

A/V Requirements

The presentation includes an electronic slide show and requires a data projector with a 1024x768 video resolution.

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