"Delivering more with less" is the central theme of
analyst firm Giga's 2003 European IT forum, which is currently
running in Paris.
The underlying assumption at GigaWorld Europe is that IT
departments are under increasing pressure to deliver more with less
while being challenged to align themselves more closely with
changing business objectives.
The three-day conference aims to deliver three key lessons:
- How to reduce IT costs and increase business returns
- How to build a strong business case for future investments
- How to align your organisation's IT and business
goals.
This year's event has five primary strands: integration;
sourcing; assets and infrastructure; economics; and organisational
structure and design. By focusing on these key areas Giga said it
aims to reflect a "holistic and integrated" approach to IT. It
described such an approach as "key to achieving greater
efficiencies and increased business value".
Giga said that this year organisations are more interested in how
to better manage and get business value from the systems they
already have rather than adding to the poorly integrated elements
built up in the past. At the conference Giga aims to offer a
roadmap through the many integration options to enable IT chiefs to
optimise their approach.
The two keynote speakers at the conference are Michael Tasooji,
senior vice-president and chief information officer at Walt Disney,
and Michael Lynch, founder, managing director and group chief
executive of software firm Autonomy.
