Wharton/Gartner Program CIO as Full Business Partner

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As a CIO, do you want your business contributions to be appreciated by your CEO and your executive peers?

Then this opportunity is for you.

Today, technology is every executive's business. But it's the CIO who is accountable for delivering the technology that improves business performance. And the most successful CIOs don't go it alone. That's why The Wharton School and Gartner Executive Programs are delivering a unique executive program, to equip CIOs to collaborate as a full business partner with their C-level peers.

For more details about 2007 Gartner CIO Academy sessions, please contact:
Dawn Gudelis
Director, CIO Academy
Gartner Executive Programs
+1.203.316.6995 (U.S/Canada)
+44.1784.268.778 (International)
dawn.gudelis@gartner.com


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To become an equal business partner, today’s CIO needs deep understanding on what other C-level peers do. What they contribute. How they succeed. CIOs should understand how their talents can extend the CEO’s vision, and strategies for market differentiation and competitive strength.

Interactive sessions draw on multiple teaching techniques to help you understand how:

  • The CEO works with the board of directors to form business strategy and manage the intricacies of creating and sustaining shareholder value.
  • CFOs contribute to long-term value, growth and profitability while applying practical applications of ROIC
  • Marketing and Sales executives use customer-focused strategies to create value propositions that rise above the market noise.

This leadership development program is designed for corporate CIOs of large global organizations, as well as business unit CIOs from multi-national organizations, with revenues in excess of 2 billion dollars. The program is exclusive to CIOs who report into the CEO and seek the next level of professional development beyond CIO leadership.

Your ability to lead technology is a given. But taking a seat at the strategy table demands unquestionable business skills. You’ll leave the week with renewed skills and new techniques for moving your career to a new level of business partnership.

  • Make a Difference in Your Organization — and Yourself: CIOs say their primary goals include "making a difference" in the ways their organizations use technology to drive growth and compete. Learn how to draw upon C-level peer talent to increase the value of your business contribution.


  • Focused Time with Your Peers and Wharton and Gartner Faculty: Interact with the best of the Wharton faculty and top Gartner Executive Programs Researchers to gain objective perspectives on your unique issues.

undefined DAVID R. BELL, PhD
Associate Professor of Marketing
The Wharton School

David Richard Bell teaches Marketing Management (MBA Program) and Marketing Strategy (MBA Program, MBA for Executives Program) at the Wharton School. He is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award (WEMBA East and WEMBA West) and Core Curriculum Award (MBA). Previously, he taught at UCLA and visited the Sloan School of Management, MIT.

His current research focuses on spatial diffusion of new products and services, customer profitability, and consumer response modeling. Articles on these topics have appeared in Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Management Science, Marketing Science, California Management Review, and Sloan Management Review. Bell serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, and Marketing Science. He is Senior Editor for Manufacturing and Services Operations Management.
undefined DAVID N. BERG, PhD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Yale School of Medicine

David N. Berg is Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. His special interests are group and intergroup relations. From 1977 to 1992, he was a professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management (SOM), where he taught courses in organizational behavior, group dynamics, and organizational diagnosis. In 1990, he received the SOM Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In 1992, Dr. Berg opened a private practice in organizational psychology, continuing his work as a consultant and as a teacher in executive programs. He has consulted for a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, municipalities, not-for-profit foundations, and public school systems. He has written several articles and books. In addition, he was deputy editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science from 1994 through 2004, and formerly served on the editorial boards of both the Journal of Management Inquiry and the Journal of Management Education.

Dr. Berg received his BA in Psychology and MA in Administrative Sciences from Yale University, as well as both an MA and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Thomas Gerrity THOMAS P. GERRITY, PhD
Joseph J. Aresty Professor of Management and Dean Emeritus
The Wharton School

Thomas P. Gerrity’s research and teaching interests are in leadership and strategic change management. He served as the 11th Dean of the Wharton School from 1990-99, leading Wharton through a period of highly recognized innovation and advancement. Prior to coming to Wharton, Dr. Gerrity was the founder and the CEO for 20 years of the Index Group, one of the world's leading consulting firms in business reengineering and information technology strategy. He was also the president of CSC Consulting, the commercial professional services division of Computer Sciences Corporation and the parent of CSC Index. He currently serves on the boards of several corporations and not-for-profit organizations.
undefined RICHARD HUNTER
Vice President and Research Director
Gartner Executive Programs

Richard Hunter is vice president and research director in Gartner Executive Programs, where his recent work has focused on information security and IT risk management. Mr. Hunter is the author of the acclaimed book World Without Secrets, published in 2002, and he is in much demand as a speaker and advisor on issues of security and privacy.

Mr. Hunter was appointed vice president and director of research for Applications Development in 1998 and was also a research director in GartnerG2. He joined Gartner as a research director in the Applications Development and Management service. Mr. Hunter is co-author, with James Kerr, of Inside RAD (McGraw-Hill, 1994), and co-author (with George Westerman of MIT) of IT Risk (Harvard Business School Press, 2007).

Mr. Hunter was elected a Gartner Fellow in 2003. He holds a bachelor's degree in music from Harvard University. He continues to compose and perform and is a world-class harmonica player.
undefined MARK MCDONALD, PhD
Group Vice President and Head of Research
Gartner Executive Programs

Mark McDonald is a group vice president and head of research in Gartner Executive Programs. He is responsible for the research agenda focused exclusively on CIOs and the business of information technology. Dr. McDonald is the lead author of research in the areas of CIO credibility, the business use of advanced technologies, enterprise architecture, and business process transformation.

He is the co-author with Peter Keen of The eProcess Edge and the author of Architecting Enterprises–Achieving Performance and Flexibility. Prior to joining Gartner, Dr. McDonald was a partner at Accenture, where he was responsible for the Centre for Process Excellence and Methodology.
Charles E. Dwyer, PhD CHARLES E. DWYER, PhD
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership Division
Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Charles Dwyer has held the positions of chairperson of the board of the Wharton Center for Applied Research and director of the Management and Behavioral Science Center. He has more than 30 years of experience in corporate and organizational consulting and executive development for various clients, including IBM, the New York Stock Exchange, PepsiCo, the Buick Division of General Motors, Merrill Lynch, Intel, Bates Advertising, the Justice Department, the General Services Administration, and the Federal Reserve System. Professor Dwyer is recognized as an outstanding teacher and lecturer. His recent books are Managing People (Kendall/Hunt, 1996), The Shifting Sources of Power and Influence (American College of Physician Executives, 1992), and Achieving Power and Influence in Organizations, the latter being a multimedia, self-instructional series of three seminars. He also teaches in Wharton’s Leading and Managing People and Building Relationships That Work programs.
John Percival, PhD JOHN R. PERCIVAL, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Finance,
The Wharton School
CEO, JRP Associates

John Percival is active in the development and teaching of various Executive Education programs. At Wharton since 1971, he is the lead faculty on several open-enrollment programs: Creating Value Through Financial Management and The CFO: Becoming a Strategic Partner. He has also developed customized programs for companies such as GE Capital, Pitney Bowes, IBM, Fiat, Chubb, Hartford, American Skandia, Sun Life, Siam Cement, Scientific Atlanta, Ford, and Bankers Trust. He consults to organizations in both the public and private sectors, has authored or co-authored articles in numerous publications, and was recently the recipient of the WEMBA Program Core Teaching Award for Financial Analysis.
Harbir Singh HARBIR SINGH, PhD
The Mack Professor
Professor of Management
Co-Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovations
The Wharton School

Harbir Singh is a leading researcher on strategic alliances and strategies for corporate renewal, including path-breaking projects on managing acquisitions and alliances and post-acquisition management. He has consulted for companies such as Bell Atlantic, IBM, Merck, and AT&T. His current research includes strategies for corporate alliances and acquisitions, corporate governance, joint ventures, management buyouts, and corporate restructuring. He serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious publications and has extensive experience in working with senior executive audiences in the U.S. and India.
Mike Useem, PhD MIKE USEEM, PhD
The William and Jacalyn Egan Professor
Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Mike Useem offers courses on management, leadership, and corporate governance to MBA and senior executive audiences in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He has worked extensively on leadership development and governance with many organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He is the author of The Go Point: When It's Time to Decide; Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win; The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All; Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America; and Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization. From the slopes of Mount Everest to the battlefields of Gettysburg, Dr. Useem has gone to great lengths to present leadership lessons to executives.

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