CIO Executive Forum

Telecom profits are continuing to drop while the pressure to build business through technological differentiation continues. Telcos at all levels are struggling with convergence, integration and managing resources in this fast changing business environment. The Telco's CIOs are strategically placed to influence the Telco's innovation, transformation and organization.

Responding to this critical issue ETIS has organised its 6th CIO Execuitve Workshop to be hosted by Bulgaria Telecom Company in Sofia, Bulgaria on 20 April 2007. The theme of this workshop is to discuss our members' transformation plans and the changing role of IT in the organisation building on the presentations that were made during our last Gathering at BT. The workshop will feature member presentations from the CIOs of BTC, KPN, TDC and Eircom as well as a strategic keynote presentation from the Boston Consulting Group with plenty of room for open discussions.

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The CIO workshops are targeted exclusively towards the CIO's of the major Telcos in Europe. If your CIO is not yet registered to participate in these events, please contact Mr. Fred Werner at fw@etis.org

CIO Forum Background

A recent initiative by ETIS has been the launch of the ETIS Executive CIO Forum. This forum provides a unique opportunity for CIOs from the telecommunication industry, to share the knowledge and experiences, and to discuss the current challenges, such as the use of IT to enable real transformations of companies.

The first workshop, 'Balancing Business Transformation with Cost Optimisation' was held in Paris on 31 October 2003. The keynote speaker was Mr. Sinclair Stockman, CIO of BT, who made a presentation on the "Strategic View of Cost Optimisation". Additional presentations were delivered by France Telecom, TeliaSonera and KPN.

Following the success of this CIO Workshop, a follow-up workshop, 'Value Creation - Network Economy', took place in Frankfurt on 20 February 2004 and was hosted by T-Systems. Dr. Øystein Fjellstad from the Norwegian School of Management was the workshop's keynote speaker and he delivered a presentation on, "Casting off the Chains - Valuenetwork, Valueshop, Valuechain".

The 3rd ETIS CIO Workshop: ‘How to use sourcing as a competitive advantage’ was hosted in Brussels by BT on 18-19 November 2004 and featured the keynote speaker Mr. Robert Morgan, Director of Morgan Chambers. Robert Morgan delivered presentations on the topics of "Business models for Outsourcing" and "Retained organisation and how to avoid the most common mistakes".

ETIS recently held a 4th CIO Workshop, which was hosted by T-Systems in Frankfurt on 30 September 2005. The theme of the workshop was ‘The Search for Simplicity’. The keynote speaker was be Don Marchand who is a Professor at IMD and the Chairman of EnterpriseIQ, who focused on how managers can shape and lead the deployment and usage of information and IT by their people internally and with customers, suppliers and partners externally to improve business performance.

ETIS recently held its 5th ETIS Executive CIO Workshop: ''A Turning Point for CRM? Simplifying the future customer-centric Telco'' which was kindly hosted by KPN in Amsterdam on 31 March 2006. Please contact the ETIS Central Office for more details on how to join the CIO Executive Forum.

The CIO workshops are targeted exclusively towards the CIO's of the major Telcos in Europe. If your CIO is not yet registered to participate in these events, please contact Mr. Fred Werner at fw@etis.org