The Roundtable on Digital Strategies is a roundtable for Global 1000 CIOs and functional VPs focused on the business issues they jointly face and the enabling role of information technology. The moderated roundtable discussion format engages CIOs and their VP colleagues from other functions in frank dialogue and collaboration.

Executives are drawn from different industries to share their perspectives on a specific business issue and wrestle with concerns common across sectors. The Roundtable also invites 2-3 leading academics who bring examples from industries other than those represented and provide any theory needed. Participants are expected to bring their best practices, share their key issues, and strive to generate new insights to business problems together. Recent topics include enabling innovation, strategic partnering, and working in emerging markets.

The Roundtable meets four times a year to discuss a specific business issue. The U.S. and European chapters meet jointly once a year (alternating European and U.S. hosting) and the U.S. group meets separately two additional times as does the European chapter once a year. Each meeting is one day with dinner the night before. Member companies take turns hosting the meetings. For a copy of our brochure click here.

Each roundtable results in a written summary distributed to participants in a timely manner and, subject to a confidentiality review, made available publicly. For past overviews, click here.

The Roundtable is run by the Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck and governed by a Roundtable Executive Committee:

• Haider Rashid, Group Senior VP & CIO, ABB Group
  
• T. Geir Ramleth, Senior VP & CIO, Bechtel Group
  
• Karl Probst, Senior VP & CIO, BMW Group
  
• Al-Noor Ramji, CIO, BT Group and CEO, BT Exact
  
• Rita Heise, Corporate VP & CIO, Cargill
  
• Bill Blausey, VP & CIO, Eaton
  
• Olivier Gouin, Group CIO, Nestlé
  
• Hans Brechbühl, Executive Director, Center for Digital Strategies
  
• M. Eric Johnson, Director, Center for Digital Strategies

Leading the IT Organization of the Future
Thought Leadership Roundtable on Digital Strategies
Feb. 25, 2009 - Arlington, VA

New strategies for managing corporate IT will be the focus of the Feb. 25, 2009 Roundtable on Digital Strategies hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in Arlington, VA. This roundtable will examine the forces of change and their impact on the IT organization of the future.[ more ]

Global Mindset, Virtual Organization:
The Changing Nature of Corporations
September 18, 2008 - Munich, Germany

In this Roundtable, hosted by BMW, we examined how the corporate organization is changing with respect to globalization and virtualization and discuss how these changes impact the existing organizational paradigms. How should the paradigms change to reflect the changing landscape? How do you encourage a global mindset in the organization, and capitalize on the trends towards virtualization, collaboration and diversity, while appropriately protecting intellectual property/information assets and delivering what customers want? [ more ]

Global Talent and the Next Generation Workforce
June 17, 2008 - Cleveland, Ohio

Members of the U.S. Roundtable Chapter discussed the keys to managing a truly global workforce, addressed current challenges around recruiting, retaining, and educating new talent and examined definitions of work/life boundaries and employee expectations. [ more ]

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