05/14 TLA Morning Meeting

TLA May 14th Meeting Announcement

Technology Leaders Association (TLA) was established to help senior level IT executives develop and manage their careers. As part of this effort, we hold monthly meetings to network, share ideas, and learn from featured guest speakers in the strategy, information technology, and career management fields.

This month, our guest speaker is Christopher S. Rollyson and he will present “How CIOs Can Outperform Rivals by Using a Web 2.0 Investment Strategy.”

Executives largely ignored social networking before 2009, but constant media attention and emerging case studies are creating a sense of urgency to "do something." However, many companies have invested carelessly and a shakeout is imminent. Individual executives and IT leaders who understand this will have a significant advantage over others.

Chris will explain the adoption curve for Web 2.0 and social networks, so you can learn where the technology is going and avoid the mistakes that most firms are making. This will help you to create competitive advantage while competitors are licking their wounds. Learn how to approach Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and others. His presentation will also cover the following points:

- The Web 2.0 Adoption Curve, 2009-2015
- The building wave of "ignorant criticism” of social networks
- How Web 2.0 will mature from 2011-2015
- How you can play by different rules and succeed while others fail
- Risk mitigation and management strategies for Web 2.0 investments

Date: Friday, May 14th
Where: Acxiom, located at 3333 Finley Road in Downers Grove (8 story building)
Cost: No charge

Special thanks to TLA member and Acxiom employee John Costanza for hosting us this month.

As a special facilities note, all TLA members must be escorted throughout the Acxiom facility. Please do not leave the conference room without an escort.

For reservations, (1) Please sign up online on the TLA website (www.techleaders.net) under ‘Events’ – or, if you don’t have access to the website, (2) Please reply to Patrick.Moroney@gmail.com with your name and telephone number.

For location information: Contact Jim Anfield at jdanfield@illinoisalumni.org.

Reservations must be made before noon on Thursday, May 13th with the first 80 reservations accepted. No walk-ins please.

Directions
Acxiom is located near the intersection of I-355 and I-88 in Downers Grove. Get off the Butterfield Road exit of I-355 and go east to Finley Road. Go south on Finley Road for about a half-mile and Acxiom is located on the east side of Finley. Go to the main entrance of the eight-story building for check-in. Do not go to the other four-story Acxiom building. Parking is available just west of the eight-story building in the parking lot.

Agenda
7:00am – 7:15am Check-in and coffee
7:15am – 8:30am Structured networking – two table rounds
8:30am – 8:40am Announcements
8:40am – 9:30am Chris Rollyson
9:30am Adjourn

Structured Networking
Structured networking is a technique used at most major executive transition groups. It is meant to be a powerful method of generating ideas that might help each of our searches. During this process, we will quickly brainstorm potential job lead ideas, gain networking contacts at desired companies, and generate advice from the members by sharing our backgrounds as well as our career objectives. It is designed to generate ideas, but given the time constraints, not get into immediate detailed discussions. You should plan on following up with anybody who may have had an interesting idea or a good contact.
Please bring business cards, handbills (career overview) or resumes (plain paper is fine) to pass around if you have them. Figure on about 20 copies of the resumes/handbills and 50 business cards.
We will run our networking, dividing the room into small tables of a maximum of 8 people and doing 2 table rotations before our speaker begins. At each rotation, you will have 90 seconds for your pitch and about 90 seconds for Q&A. Spend no more than 1/3 summarizing your past (this is not the time to rehash your resume), then spend about 1/3 on what you are looking for and 1/3 on what we can do to help (such as target contacts) or ask for advice on an issue.

Speaker Bio
Christopher S. Rollyson has guided executives on using disruptive technology to transform business for over 20 years as a veteran of PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and specialist firms. He has advised Fortune 100 companies on how to assess, pilot and scale their use of the Internet, service-oriented architecture, Web 2.0 and social networks. Last year, his firm CSRA released the Social Network Roadmap, a methodology that helps enterprises adopt social networks faster by mitigating risk. In 2008-2009, CSRA launched the Executive's Guide to LinkedIn, the Executive's Guide to Facebook and the Executive's Guide to Twitter, services that use social networks for innovation.