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Issues & Answers Management Issues Track

As today’s corporate leaders, you realize the Year 2000 project goes far beyond the code issue. This problem attacks your organization from many angles ranging from becoming Year 2000 certified to understanding your company’s potential legal liabilities. The Management Track addresses your most pressing concerns and offers ideas, resources, and formulas for success from today’s industry luminaries!

    In-Depth Workshop
  1. A Step-by-Step Approach for Getting Your Organization Ready to Face the 21st Century
    Ken Orr, President, The Ken Orr Institute

  2. Managing Your Supply Chain
    David Hurst, Managing Consultant, Data Dimensions

  3. Creating a Business-Wide Strategy for Combating the Year 2000 Crisis — CIGNA P&C's Approach
    C. Lawrence Meador, Senior Vice President and Information Officer, CIGNA Property & Casualty

  4. Year 2000 Legal Issues: Rights, Liabilities, Protection
    Vito C. Peraino, Partner, Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP

  5. Managing the Risk of a Year 2000 Project
    Kyle K. McCormick, V.P. of Business Practices, Paragon Computer Professionals

  6. Making Sense of Vendor Claims: How to Evaluate and Select Appropriate Year 2000 Solutions
    Leland Freeman, Director, Year 2000 Advisory Services, Management Support Technology

  7. Certification and the ITAA*2000 Program
    Harris Miller, President, Information Technology Association of America

  8. Year 2000 Contingency Planning: What To Do When the Job Can't Be Done
    Leland Freeman, Managing Director, Year 2000 Advisory Services, Management Support Technology

In-Depth Workshop

1. A Step-by-Step Approach for Getting Your Organization Ready to Face the 21st Century

Data processors have always known that they needed to make provisions for the 21st Century, it just seemed that it was so far in the future. Now there are less than four years left until January 1, 2000, and many organizations are only just now waking up to what an enormous problem converting all their software, hardware and procedures to deal with a new millennium will be. Not only will enormous amounts of code be reviewed, but every aspect of each organization’s database management systems, operating systems, purchased applications packages and hardware will have to be reviewed, corrected, tested and reinstalled, all within a very short time frame. [Top]

2. Managing Your Supply Chain

Evaluating and managing a business’ supply chain may be the most critical, yet least explored challenge in solving the Year 2000 problem. How does a company coordinate and protect its product manufacturing, store fronts, distributors, suppliers, business partners, and more? This presentation examines the methods and procedures that assure a smooth, effective, and cooperative solution to this non-IT endeavor. [Top]

3. Creating A Business-Wide Strategy for Combating the Year 2000 Crisis — CIGNA P&C's Approach

Fixing the Year 2000 problem requires a strategy that addresses all the potential business risks — and that means involving not just IT leaders, but risk managers, financial officers, and top executives. This session reviews how to develop and implement an enterprise-wide approach. [Top]

Year 2000 Legal Issues: Rights, Liabilities, Protection

As the Year 2000 issues begin to mature, those affected by the Year 2000 crises will be forced to consider the legal implications of the problem. The legal press already is covering the Year 2000 problem and law suits are certain to follow. This presentation explores the potential liabilities associated with the Year 2000 problem, the rights you may have if affected by the Year 2000 problem and the steps you can take to protect yourself against Year 2000 liabilities. [Top]

5. Managing the Risk of a Year 2000 Project

The Year 2000 conversion project is without precedent or baselines - which raises the level of risk by an order of magnitude. Without an integrated set of processes that can identify and control the danger points, IT organizations can quickly find themselves losing ground to an unforgiving timeline. This session provides an analytical framework to enable organizations of all sizes to balance the costs, benefits and risks of all resources and activities critical to the success of their Year 2000 initiative. [Top]

6. Making Sense of Vendor Claims: How to Evaluate and Select Appropriate Year 2000 Solutions

Product names sound the same, vendor claims are interchangeable and deliverables appear identical. How does an IS organization assess offerings purported to solve the Year 2000 crisis? Mr. Freeman presents an in-depth look at the tasks to perform, methodologies and technologies that are available, and a framework for critiquing vendor offerings. [Top]

7. Certification and the ITAA*2000 Program

When it comes to the century date change issue, there are only two types of organizations: those which claim to be Year 2000-compliant and those that wish they could. Now there is an industry based certification program that helps both solution providers and their customers sort through the competing claims and gain high level assurance that the processes and methods used to develop software meets the industry’s best practices for addressing the Year 2000 issue. Learn about the ITAA*2000 Program and why certification makes sense for just about any organization developing or using software today.

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8. Year 2000 Contingency Planning: What to Do When the Job Can't Be Done

At some point in a Year 2000 project, most organizations will realize that the entire conversion will not be completed. Contingency planning needs to be a critical part of an overall Year 2000 strategy. This talk provides information on what steps to take (and when to invoke them) as backup measures. [Top]

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