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Chief Technical Officer
of the Department of
Defense (DoD) Business
Mission Area
Mr. Dennis E. Wisnosky is CTO of the DoD Business Mission Area, within the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation. Mr. Wisnosky is responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight of the federated architectures supporting the Department’s Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) – the systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DoD. Mr. Wisnosky ensures that the federated architectures of the BMA fully support the Department’s vision, mission, strategy and priorities for Business Transformation.
Mr. Wisnosky also serves as an advisor for the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the offi ce of the DoD Chief Information Officer.
Mr. Wisnosky has over 25 years of experience in IT consulting and training, including extensive experience in business process reengineering and enterprise architecture efforts. His specialty is deriving solutions to effectively move organizations from their as-is state of ineffi ciency to their to-be state of achieving strategic and tactical objectives. Mr. Wisnosky is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition (IDEFs) language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts.
Chairman,
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)CSO, Cordys
Jon Pyke is Chairman of the Workflow Management Coalition, and author of several articles and books on business process management including Mastering Your Organization’s Processes: A Plain Guide to BPM. Currently Chief Strategy Officer of Cordys, previously Jon was Chief Technology Officer of Staffware Plc.
Over his 30-year career in the technology industry, Jon has worked for a number of software and hardware companies as well as user organizations, is a frequent speaker at international events and he regularly quoted in the National and Industry press. Jon co-founded the Workflow Management Coalition and is an AIIM Laureate for Workflow. Jon was also awarded the Marvin Manheim Award for Excellence in Workflow in 2003.
A recent article concluded: “Jon Pyke, is one of the most influential figures in the Business Process Management (BPM) sector” and that “he was personally responsible for defining many of the key software metaphors that enable BPM to work.”
First CIO in U.S. Federal Government
President, Enterprise Transformation Group
Professor,
University of Denver
As Assistant Secretary for Information Resource Management, Edward G. Lewis was the first Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the U.S. Federal Government. As CIO, he was responsible for overseeing a large IT environment, including over 4,300 IT employees, a $600 million annual IT budget, four data processing centers, and all major IT projects. Today has is an international consultant, educator, and public speaker. He has been actively involved in strategic management and technology issues for over 39 years, including thirty-four years in information technology and twenty-nine years in strategic planning.
Mr. Lewis is the Founder and President of Enterprise Transformation Group, Ltd., and currently is a full-time lecturer at the University of Denver, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Global Value Chain Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management, strategic planning and information technology policy.
Recently Mr. Lewis was appointed by President George W. Bush to a four-year term on the Board of Directors for the National Veterans Business Development Corporation. This Corporation is responsible for developing and implementing information and resource programs to assist veterans in their entrepreneurial and small business activities. Mr. Lewis served as Chairman of the Board for over two and half years.
CEO, Enturity
IEEE Fellow
International Expert on Organization Process Improvement
Dr. Curtis is one of the nation's most recognized authorities organization process improvement. He was most recently the Chief Process Officer and Senior Vice President of McAfee Corporation, previously Chief Process Officer for Borland Software, a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and a member of the Advisory Board of QAI-India. He was recently named IEEE Fellow for contributions to software process improvement. As director of the Process Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), he led the team that published the Capability Maturity Model for Software (Software CMM). Before joining SEI, Dr. Curtis directed research in the Software Technology Program and the Human Interface Laboratory at MCC.
His keynote “So Many Measures, So Little Insight: How to Build a Measurement Program that Aids the Mission” will discuss how too many organizations are awash in measures, many mandated by executives, standards, or customers, that are failing to produce insight into enterprise performance. Worse, unless these measures are interpreted in the context of an organization's end-to-end process or mission, they often lead to siloed decisions that sub-optimize the system. Leading indicators of enterprise performance that provide profound operational insight are best achieved from programs that integrate the design of measures with sustained process improvements. This talk will describe how to redesign an organization's performance measures in stages that are guided by the Process Maturity Framework that has revolutionized system development, workforce development, and now enterprise business processes.This framework allows an organization to assess the maturity of its enterprise processes and align its measurement objectives with its improvement objectives. The measurement program is developed in stages that create steady and often dramatic improvements in performance, ultimately leading to sophisticated statistical models of enterprise performance. The guiding principle is that an enterprise must unify process improvement and performance measure in a staged program that continually builds organizational capability and readiness. Operational improvements and measures must first help stabilize local operations so they can meet their performance obligations. Then processes and measures need to be standardized across the organization to achieve economies of scale and comparability across the enterprise. Next statistical methods need to used to characterize the capability of enterprise operations and provide predictive models of operational outcomes.
Executive Director of The Babson College Center for Business Innovation
Founder & President,
Delphi Group
Thomas M Koulopoulos is Executive Director of The Babson College Center for Business Innovation. As the founder and president of Delphi Group, a widely respected advisory services firm which he grew to be an INC 500 global player with offices on five continents and a client base of 20,000. Delphi Group focused on consulting, advisory services, research and market analysis, and education across a variety of industries. Koulopoulos sold Delphi Group to Perot Systems in 2003.
At Perot he established the Innovation Lab of Perot Systems in the US and India, which was one of the first innovation labs of its kinds in the service industry. Koulopoulos has written seven books on business, economic and technology strategy and has been a consultant and advisor to hundreds of global organizations, government agencies and corporate leaders.
He has been praised by such management icons as Peter Drucker, who said of Tom’s work, “It not only makes you question the way you run your business but also the way you run yourself.”
Koulopoulos’ most recent book, Smartsourcing: How to Drive Innovation, Jobs, and Growth in the Age of Globalization looks at the core drivers and broad implications of outsourcing and globalization.
Koulopoulos has been an adjunct professor at the Boston College Wallace E. Carroll Graduate School of Management and a guest lecturer and advisor at the Boston University Graduate School and an advisor to the Bentley College McCallum Graduate School.
