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Overview
of the Round Table
During
the past five years, the rise of what has been termed the New Economy,
characterized especially by digital-based and hybrid (digital and physical)
innovation has had a profound and strong impact on large established firms
in traditional industries. Therefore, the challenges facing managers at such
companies are considerable, requiring actions and changes on a broad front -
including undertaking organization building, instituting new processes and
operations, practicing new kinds of leadership, empowering talented people,
reaching customers via new marketing approaches, recognizing and creating
new markets, linking effectively and seamlessly with suppliers, partners,
and other third parties, and above all, practicing results-producing innovation.
Nowhere is
the upheaval more pronounced than in the publishing industry, where the
traditional ways of delivering content and reaching customers have been
called into question by the introduction of e-books, and online newspapers
and magazines. Today, companies such as McGraw-Hill, Random House, the
Chicago Tribune and Primedia are all struggling with how to "reinvent" their
businesses and become players in the NewMedia industry.
At this unique
Round Table, the Institute for Technology and Enterprise will focus directly
on the important managerial and firm-level issues that are reconfiguring the
publishing industry, and are facing professionals in practically all sectors
of the modern economy. Participants at the Round Table will consider the
following issues:
- Organizational
approaches which enable traditional publishing firms to
compete in the NewMedia industry
- Critical
managerial competencies required for successful NewMedia
companies
- Developing
appropriate human talent needed for newly transformed media
enterprises
- Effective ways
for newly transformed media enterprises to promote continuous
innovation
All Institute
Round Tables, unlike large conferences and traditional
large-scale meetings, strive to be true learning opportunities,
explicitly designed to encourage a maximum amount
of interaction and high-level discussion. As always,
representatives from leading companies will present
what they have learned, and original research and
case studies developed at ITE will be discussed, often
for the first time.
Round
Table Speakers
- S u s a n D r i s c o l l
Chief Operating Officer, Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group
- K e l l y F r a n k l i n
Director, E-Business Development, John Wiley & Sons, Inc
- N i s a L e w i t e s
Director, New York Times Digital
- J a m e s L i c h t e n b e r g
President, Lightspeed LLC
- R a m o n M a s
Planetta
From the Institute for Technology & Enterprise
Polytechnic
University:
- P r o f e s s o r M e l H
o r w i t c h
Director, Institute for Technology & Enterprise
- P r o f e s s o r N i n a Z
i v
Academic Director, Institute for Technology and
Enterprise
- P r o f e s s o r B a r r y B l e c h e r m a n
Institute for Technology & Enterprise
- P r o f e s s o r M i h i r P a r i k h
Institute for Technology and Enterprise
- S t e p h e n D e l V e c c h i o
Member of the Class of 2001, Telecommunications and Information
Management Program, Polytechnic University
- D e n n i s G a l i k
Member of the Class of 2001, Management of
Technology Program, Polytechnic University
Round
Table Program
Wednesday, January 24, 2001
4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
New York Information Technology Center
55 Broad Street
Fourth Floor ("Global Digital Community Sandbox")
New York City
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Registration
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| 4:45
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Welcome & Overview
Prof. Mel Horwitch, Institute for Technology and Enterprise
Prof. Nina Ziv, Institute for Technology and Enterprise
Presentation of ITE White Paper - The Reinvention of Large Established Companies: Managerial Challenges
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| 5:00 PM |
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Session
I -
Innovation-Enabled Transformations in Modern Publishing
- Session
Chair:
James Lichtenberg, Lightspeed LLC
- Speakers:
- Susan Driscoll, Bedford, Freeman, & Worth Publishing Group
- Stephen DelVecchio, Polytechnic University
- Kelly Franklin, John Wiley and Sons Inc.
- Dennis Galik, Polytechnic University
- Nisa Lewites, New York Times Digital
- Ramon Mas, Planetta
- Prof. Nina Ziv, Institute for Technology and Enterprise
- Presentation of new Case Study: Building a Newspaper for the New Economy: The Chicagotribune.com
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| 6:30
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Break/Light Meal Served
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| 6:45
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Presentation of Paper: Piloting Uncharted Rapids:
Successfully Leading Information-Driven Business Transformation
Prof.
Barry Blecherman
Institute for Technology and Enterprise
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| 7:00
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Session II -
Round Table Dialogue: Implications
for Publishing, Media and Beyond
- Moderators:
Prof. Mel Horwitch, Institute for Technology and Enterprise
Prof. Mihir Parikh, Institute for Technology and Enterprise
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| 7:45
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Lessons Learned and
Wrap-Up (Open Discussion)
Prof.
Mel Horwitch, Institute for Technology and
Enterprise
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