Sponsor: Hitachi Consulting Corporation
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Ellen Kitzis, Philip Parr
Type: Video (17 minutes)
CIOs are often asked to reduce costs. But when IT typically represents only 2-4% of organizational spend; reductions in this area are marginally helpful. So how does a CIO take IT assets and drive revenue growth with them?
IT has an incredible opportunity to turn investments into returns. But for this to occur, organizations need to start looking at IT as part of an investment strategy rather than a cost strategy.
Check out this new program and hear industry experts discuss how CIOs can ensure their competitive advantage by keeping their companies more responsive to market changes. In addition, these experts will break down the role IT plays in transforming companies into market-responsive leaders.
Case Studies
In this program you’ll hear case studies of CIOs who effectively used information to become market responsive and drive improved profitability.
- Leading US emergency health care provider now uses data, strategic thinking, and cutting-edge solutions to improve their business performance, and the lives of patients receiving emergency care.
- Leading US high tech manufacturer created more efficient processes and improved their forecasting by integrating financial plans with sales, marketing and operations.
- Large global food services company redesigned their processes, organization and tracking mechanisms to have a better-integrated view of their trade spend and its effectiveness.
- Leading media and marketing services companies found operational savings by becoming more responsive to changes in transportation costs.
Create your own success story. Check out this new program now and learn about the role of information and the power of the CIO. Go now.
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About Ellen Kitzis - Research VP, Gartner
Ellen S. Kitzis is a vice president of Research at Gartner. She specializes in research for IT leaders, focusing on key issues such as IT-business alignment, organizational change, IT management strategies, governance, the CIO and the role of the IT leadership team. Traveling throughout the 50 states and Latin America, Ms. Kitzis frequently speaks with groups of CIOs on topical themes and issues. She is a spokesperson for Gartner for various CIO publications and has appeared a number of times on CNBC. She is co-author with Marianne Broadbent of "The New CIO Leader: Setting the Agenda and Delivering Results" (HBS Press, 2005).
Ms. Kitzis has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to her current role at Gartner, she led Gartner's Global Product Management team responsible for developing and managing products for users, technology providers and investors. Ms. Kitzis specializes in organizational strategy, leadership, and IT and business synergy. For five years, she was part of the global leadership team of Gartner's CIO Executive Programs (EXP), which served more than 3,000 CIO members. She led the EXP Americas team, working daily to support CIOs and other IT leaders. She regularly engaged members in the daily issues of leading and managing IS organizations. Before returning to Gartner, Ms. Kitzis held the position of vice president of strategy and business development for Compaq (now part of HP) and was the worldwide head of Gartner Dataquest's IT Services group. She held previous positions at The Ledgeway Group and Consulting Statistician, a Crowntek company.
About Philip Parr, President and CEO, Hitachi Consulting
Philip Parr is president and chief executive officer of Hitachi Consulting, responsible for overall global operations and profitability.
Since joining Hitachi Consulting in 2002, Parr served in a variety of leadership positions, consistently delivering profitable results. Most recently he served as chief operating officer for the company's U.S. consulting operations. Under his guidance, Hitachi Consulting's U.S. business delivered double digit revenue growth.
Parr has been in the professional services industry for 25 years, serving consumer products and industrial manufacturing clients. His areas of expertise include business and systems integration, enterprise application implementation, and customer relationship management solutions.
Parr began his career in 1982 at Andersen Consulting and spent 10 years in the Denver office serving clients in various industries. He then shifted to industry and served four years as chief information officer of a $1B national food distributor where he successfully led a large business and technology transformation initiative. Parr returned to consulting in 1996, joining Arthur Andersen's Business Consulting practice as managing partner of the Denver organization. He served in a variety of regional and national executive leadership roles and became part of Hitachi Consulting in 2002 as part of the acquisition of Andersen's Business Consulting practice.
Parr holds a bachelor degree in finance and information science from the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he currently resides with his family.
