Leadership and Opportunities in the Age of Smart

Having survived the Great Recession we are still too far away from the Great Recovery that our leaders have promised. There is a pervasive myth that we may be mired in a world where most national economies including the U.S. essentially flatline, along with a bump of recovery here and there. The era of cheap resources, it is argued, is over. The plentiful and extremely profitable supplies of everything—petroleum, metals, minerals, water, and even clean air have been exhausted. But the single most important resource—human ingenuity—is seldom discussed. The combination of ingenuity and advances in smart personal technology—physicist Michio Kaku has noted that today’s average cell phone has more computing power that all of NASA did when it sent two astronauts to the moon—will demand the utmost of our business leaders to seize opportunities. “We can still shape the future we want, but only if we’re willing to relinquish the past we’ve known.”


DECEMBER 9

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Breakfast and Registration
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions
  • Marshall Cooper, CEO, Chief Executive Group
  • Wayne Cooper, Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Group
9:00 AM  --  9:45 AM Digital Disruption Must Start At The Top

Consumers have embraced digital tools and platforms which have dramatically raised their expectations for every product and service they experience, whether physical or digital, shifting their attention to firms that respect the convenience that digital product experiences offer. All companies can participate in digital disruption, but many will not respond in an effective and timely manner. Join McQuivey, author of the book Digital Disruption, as he explains why your company's response to digital disruption must start at the top and eventually infect the whole organization, despite the structural, cultural, and procedural barriers to disruption that will conspire to inhibit you.

  • James McQuivey, Ph.D., VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

9:45 AM –10:45 AM What Every CEO Needs to Know About Data Analytics

Big Data should not be confused with Smart Data. Using customer intelligence poorly is sometimes worse than not using it at all. It’s easy for companies to become mesmerized by Big Data—terabytes and petrabytes of information.  If not properly used it can negatively effect customer engagement, waste marketing dollars and impact profitability. The numbers when combined with creativity  can generate  engaging experiences and useful insights that can differentiate one’s company in strategic ways—ways that competitors will find hard to match.

  • Tom Rogers, CEO, TiVO
  • Ed Heffernan, CEO, Alliance Data
  • Larry Freed, CEO, ForeSee

10:45 AM– 11:00 AM Networking Break
11:00 AM  – 12:00 Noon Innovation, Transformation and Winning in the 21st Century
  • Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
12:10 PM – 12:50 PM Networking Lunch
  • Rick Scott, Florida Governor, former CEO of Columbia/HCA
12:50 PM – 2:10 PM

Concurrent roundtables


Leveraging Intangible Assets: How Leaders Can Put Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century
It is estimated that 70 percent of the value of the average company today is intangible and depends upon such assets of its ability to innovate, its intellectual property (IC), and networks. Intangibles are the new raw materials of the 21st century. The core of the smart economy is taking these invisible assets and creating monetary value which competitors cannot easily duplicate.

This discussion will focus on 3 key elements of business leadership and culture driven by purpose.

  • aligning people at all levels of the organization to the purpose
  • inspiring leadership and all levels – engaging the very best in people
  • creating long-term sustainability (long term customer relationships, employee commitment and ability for the company to flex with industry changes). 

Discussion Leader: J.P. Donlon, Editor-In-Chief, Chief Executive Magazine

Thought Leaders: Peter Bible, Partner, EisnerAmper & Jerry Ravi, Partner, EisnerAmper


How a CEO's Focus on Organizational Purpose Elevates Performance: What Leaders Can Do

Defining a purpose and making it the beacon that guides key business decisions and informs strategy is key to an organization’s healthy culture and performance. Having a strong and clear purpose is particularly helpful in times of organizational disruption, such as following a change of leadership, during a major strategic shift and restructuring, following a merger or acquisition to forge a common identity through creation of a common purpose and culture and when recovering reputation after a crisis.

This discussion will focus on 3 key elements of business leadership and culture driven by purpose.

  • aligning people at all levels of the organization to the purpose
  • inspiring leadership and all levels – engaging the very best in people
  • creating long-term sustainability (long term customer relationships, employee commitment and ability for the company to flex with industry changes). 

Discussion Leader: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean, Yale School of Management and Founder & President of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute

Thought Leader: Jim Hart, President & CEO, Senn Delaney

2:20 PM – 3:10 PM Leveraging Logistics, Networks, and Supply Chains for Competitive Advantage
More than 60 years ago W. Edwards Deming first conceptualized the idea of production and procurement as a system that can reach the customer more efficiently and outflank competitors. The term "supply chain", which was coined later, soon became recognized as something strategic--no longer a backroom operation. Since 2003, for example, it has been an integral part of IBM's business model.
Today the velocity of data and the integrated systems of external and internal sourcing translates into systems of competitive advantage that reduces uncertainty and offers a high degree of flexibility. This panel focuses on how using such systems can provide disruptive innovation as well as procurement success that can be used regardless of industry.
  • Kim Jeffery, Chairman, Nestle Waters
  • Nicolas Reinecke, Expert Principal, McKinsey & Co.
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Smart Leaders; Smart Teams: Transitioning, Culture and Alignment for Maximum Effectiveness
What are leaders thinking when they create a high-performing team? The goal of a team is to create results that individuals acting alone cannot achieve separately. What are the learnings and behaviors that generate higher quality decisions, more innovation and better if not faster execution?
  • George Barrett, Chairman and Chief Executive, Cardinal Health
  • David Cote. Chairman and Chief Executive, Honeywell
  • Bob Nardelli, CEO, XLR8
4:20 PM – 5:20 PM Ex Officio Board
5:20 PM – 5:50 PM 30 in 30: 30 Best Ideas to implement in your company in 30 minutes
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Cocktail Reception on the floor of New York Stock Exchange

Please note: Agenda subject to change



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