2012 Cloud Business Summit Video: Managing Risk & Reward Panel – Part I

On November 14, 2012, Saugatuck held its 2^nd annual Cloud Business Summit at the Westin Times Square in New York City. As with our inaugural event, this year’s conference brought together large-enterprise CIOs, CTOs and senior business leaders to explore what is possible, what is real, and what is not in the Cloud today.

In this Featured panel entitled “Managing Risk and Reward in the Boundary-free Enterprise”, Saugatuck’s Mike West (VP and Distinguished Analyst) leads a panel of large-enterprise business and IT leaders that focuses on the key challenges, risks and expected rewards that companies are facing as they move to the Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BfE) and its enabling Master Architecture.

In Part I, our panelists present their first-hand experiences and some of the best practices that are helping them to manage this major transformation. The panel kicks off with an overview of Saugatuck’s BfE model, then highlights some of the key benefits / rewards that Cloud brings, from both an application and infrastructure perspective. The panel then transitions into some of the key risks / challenges, and lessons learned, from the transition to the BfE.

Joining West on the panel are Gary Lynch, Managing Director at Marsh, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Strategic Advisor at Citi (and VP Emeritus at IBM), Ed Beesley, CIO at SGS, and Louis Nauges, Blogger and CIO Advisor, who was kind enough to travel from Paris, France to join in our discussion.

Part II of this video can be accessed at the following Lens 360 post: 2012 Cloud Business Summit Video: Managing Risk & Reward Panel – Part II

To learn more about the conference, go to www.cloudbusinesssummit.com, or email Chris MacGregor.

Bill McNee

Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging industry trends and disruptive technologies driving change in enterprise IT. Over the past few years, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing. More recently, he has been actively involved in launching the firm’s CIO-targeted Cloud migration / leadership practice.

Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business / IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business / IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. Prior to this role, he was a lead analyst focusing on enterprise business applications, and asset management strategies. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, financial management and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research.

A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of business and IT executives, and vendor clients around the globe.

Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus, and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University. Since 2001, he has been a Board or Advisory Board member for the Westport Public Library.

Follow Mr. McNee on Twitter at @billmcnee.

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