Thursday, October 2

Looking Back: Why Strategy Becomes a Practical Issue

Keynote: Alfredo Funes, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant
Panel Discussion : Alfredo Funes, Jacobo Bello Joya (SEP), Verne Lizano Povedano (Grupo ADO), Alfonso Franco Endo (Conservas La Costeña) and Mike Rosen (Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant)

Where you aware that we spend 80% of our time in operations and solving problems? That 1% of your time means 2 hrs per month and that this is the average time we usually have left for Strategic thinking ?

Taking care of Operations keeps us away from Strategy. If we continue working like this we will not solve our real problems and in the long term we might only have created bigger problems. For sure this will not take us to gain competitive advantages for the Business.

Looking back, Alfredo Funes, former CIO of Grupo Modelo will review the most significant lessons learned as a CIO and why spending time in Strategy and generating value for the Buisness becomes a practical issue.

Alfredo Funes Cervantes is a senior consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business-IT Strategies and Sourcing & Vendor Relationship practices. He is the former CIO of Grupo Modelo, a worldwide Mexican company most known for making Corona beer, where he held the position for more than 15 years. As CIO, he was responsible for the construction of transactional and strategic applications for the whole company, the ITC infrastructure needed to operate the more than 150 companies of the holding group -- across different industries, including beer, malt, lean manufacturing, distribution centers, shared services centers, and convenience stores -- and the corporate infrastructure. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.

Emerging Technologies: Which Will Form the Foundation of Future IT Advances

Keynote: Lou Mazzucchelli, Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council and a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Innovation & Enterprise Agility and Social Networking practice

Cutter Fellow Lou Mazzucchelli will identify the must-have technologies for tomorrow's successful enterprises. From pay-as-you-go to Internet to 64-bit computing, you'll discover the pros and cons of the technologies that are making headlines today -- and those that may not yet have made it onto your radar. Find out which ones are OK to ignore and identify those to which you need to pay attention. Don't miss out -- the enterprises whose IT teams put these winning technologies into action first will gain a clear competitive edge.

Lou Mazzucchelli is a Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council and a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Innovation & Enterprise Agility and Social Networking practices. He is a venture partner at Ridgewood Capital, where he helps manage their technology portfolio. He is also a director of Asure Software. Prior to joining Ridgewood Capital, Lou was an investment banker at Gerard Klauer Mattison, which he joined in 1996 as its PC and digital media technology analyst. He was named to the Wall Street Journal all-star team in 1998 and in 1999 was one of nine “Home-Run Hitters” analysts (out of 2,400) recognized for his stock-picking performance. Previously, Lou spent 13 years leading Cadre Technologies, a pioneering computer-aided software engineering tools company that he founded in 1982 and grew to become one of the top 50 US ISVs before its sale in 1986. During this period, he was listed in the “Top 200 in the Software Industry” by Software Magazine. Lou began his career in data communications, moving to IT management and consulting before founding Cadre. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.