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MIT Sloan School of Management announces CIO Symposium "Enabling the Agile Enterprise"

MIT Sloan CIO Symposium brings together leading edge researchers from the MIT faculty and real world best practices from a premier international network of CIOs and IT leaders.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 21, 2004 - The MIT Sloan School of Management today announced its first CIO Symposium, to occur on May 19th, 2004 from 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM at Kresge Auditorium on the MIT Campus. Presented by the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston and the MIT Center for eBusiness, the theme of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is "Enabling the Agile Enterprise".

The goal of this first-of-its-kind CIO Symposium is to increase our understanding of how to improve the agility and adaptability of enterprises through the adoption of new business practices enabled by information technology. The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium will uniquely bring together the combined talents and resources of the academic and business communities in search of new insights into how information technology can enable organizations to manage rapid change while simultaneously ensuring smooth daily operations and availability of mission critical business processes and infrastructure.

Academic participants include Erik Brynjolfsson, Thomas W. Malone, Glen Urban and Peter Weill of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Michael Schrage of the MIT Media Lab. Participants from industry include Scott Griffin, CIO of Boeing, Doug Busch, CIO of Intel, Sinclair Stockman, CIO of BT and Gilles Bouchard, Executive Vice President of Global Operations and IT at Hewlett Packard, and over 25 other notable CIOs, CTOs and IT executives.

"MIT Sloan is honored to welcome this world-class group of industry leaders to our first CIO Symposium. The response demonstrates the relevance of our mission to foster a cooperative and adventurous learning community", said Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Center for eBusiness.

Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Professor of Management, will deliver the opening Keynote at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium on "The Digital Organization". Brynjolfsson, an award-winning researcher, helped resolve the so-called "Productivity Paradox", through his work measuring the productivity contributions of IT. Scott Griffin, CIO of Boeing Corporation will deliver the closing keynote on "Agility in a Global Enterprise". In addition to his role as CIO, Griffin chairs Boeing's Information Systems Process Council, which includes the senior computing executives from each of the Boeing operating groups. He also is responsible for Boeing information management and e-commerce strategies.

A series of lively panel discussions moderated by MIT faculty will make up the remainder of the conference, on diverse and relevant topics such as: "The changing role of the CIO", "Best practices for evaluating emerging technologies", "Harnessing the IT productivity revolution", "Survey of emerging technologies: the next wave", "Managing cross-enterprise business processes and information" and "Driving business agility: The services-oriented business".

The press and the general public are invited to attend this unique event, which brings together leading edge researchers from the MIT faculty and real world best practices from a premier international network of CIOs and IT leaders. For more information, visit http//www.mitcio.com.

About the MIT Sloan School of Management
For over fifty years, the MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Mass., has been one of the world's leading academic sources of innovation in management theory and practice. With students from more than 60 countries, it develops principled, innovative leaders who improve the world.
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