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June 3 – Green Business

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How do you sustain an efficient and affordable environment, while creating a positive impact on both you business and the environment? Join us, as we discuss green technologies and the essential issues and trends that enable companies to operate more efficiently.

June 3, 2010
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Location: Junior Achievement
120 Powell Place
Nashville, TN  37204


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Panelists include:

Mike Sole, Director of Business Development, Trinisys

Mike Sole is currently the Director of Business Development at Trinisys, which is a local company that focuses on forms and integration software solutions.  Mike has over 15 years experience in Information Technology ranging from project management to datacenter operations.  Mike previously was Vice President of Technology for PICA Group, a professional liability company and was also the project lead for deploying imaging and workflow solutions at PICA.

Vic Hatridge, CIO, Nashville Electric Service (NES).

Vic Hatridge oversees both Information Services and telecommunications for the TVA power reseller, which is an independent operating agency of Metro/Nashville Government.  As CIO, Hatridge is enabling NES steadily to upgrade infrastructure, while maintaining a lean IT departmental staff. In summer ‘02, NES blessed Transforming to Excellence (T2E), the utility’s business process and work-management transformation strategy.  Hatridge serves on the Mincom North American Advisory Council. All in all, at 58, Hatridge has plenty of targets for his three decades’ experience, as well as for his MBA and his Industrial Engineering and Management degree, both earned at Oklahoma State.

Analytics Everywhere?

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Nashville Tech Story (11/4/09)

The business of analytics is growing dramatically as we expand our informational needs for an organization.  Analytics can be thought with regard to intelligence for the business, information, content management (structure and unstructured), and predictive (statistical).  There are a plethora of products in each of these four quadrants of analytical tools.

A new global study of more than 2,500 Chief Information Officers (CIOs), released by IBM in September, reveals that leveraging analytics to gain a competitive advantage and improve business decision-making is now the top priority for CIOs. More than four out of five (83 percent) survey respondents identified business intelligence and analytics – the ability to see patterns in vast amounts of data and extract actionable insights – as the way they will enhance their organizations’ competitiveness.

These results and other insights are detailed in the just-released Global CIO Study 2009, which is the largest face-to-face survey of CIOs ever conducted. The study, titled “The New Voice of the CIO,” represents the insights and vision of CIOs from 78 countries, 19 industries, and organizations of every size. The study reinforces the increasingly strategic role that CIOs are playing as visionary leaders and as drivers of innovation and financial growth.

With an increased focus on data analytics, the survey also revealed that data reliability and security have emerged as increasingly urgent concerns, with 71 percent of CIOs planning to make additional investments in risk management and compliance.

As a result of analytics, the CIO’s role is changing to include the following:

  • Making innovation real
  • Raising the ROI on IT
  • Expanding the business impact.

Sign up today to join us for lunch on November 12, 2009, for the launch of the Analytics Group.