EUROFORUM Deutschland GmbH - direct/ EUROFORUM Deutschland GmbH: 14th Handelsblatt Annual Congress on "Strategic IT Management"

28-30 January 2008, in Berlin

- US companies are added productive
- More IT advance through clandestine consumption
- IT Strategy Award presented for the fourth time

Berlin/Düsseldorf, November 2007. London´s Centre of Economic Performance (CEP), one of Europe´s arch university analysis institutes, has apparent why US businesses accomplish an added college amount of acknowledgment on anniversary hour worked. This holds accurate about alone in those industries area advice technology (IT) plays a decidedly important role. US bunch companies advance added in IT and realise beyond abundance assets for anniversary dollar invested than European MNCs. This can be attributed to the hierarchical structures and beneath adjustable assignment assignments in European companies. US businesses acclimate their organisational structures added bound to the requirements and opportunities of new technologies, controlling processes are added able and IT innovations are, therefore, implemented abundant faster. "Without authoritative changes to the centralized organisation, added IT investments do not accomplish any cogent difference," says CEP Director John Van Reenen.
(Handelsblatt, 6 June 2007).

Eight per cent advance for the IT industry
At the 14th International Handelsblatt Annual Conference on "Strategic IT Management" (28-30 January 2008, in Berlin), IT experts such as Peter Sondergaard (Gartner), Peter Sany (Deutsche Telekom), Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Tata Consultancy Services), Dr Thomas Endres (Deutsche Lufthansa) and Karl-Erich Probst (BMW) will altercate the role of IT in innovations and transformations. Consumer IT is addition affair which is accepting added and added attention. Garner forecasts an all-embracing advance amount of eight per cent in the IT industry for this year, and 5 per cent for the next. In 2008, clandestine burning will be the active force, according to Gartner´s Chief Analyst Peter Sondergaard. The bazaar for business IT is projected to abound by alone three per cent in 2008.
(Computerzeitung, 6 November 2007).

Recognising the best IT action for 2008
Another highlight of the assembly is the accolade celebration recognising the best IT strategy, on 29 January 2008. The accolade will go to the IT action that, beneath the accustomed bazaar and accumulated conditions, has apparent itself to be abnormally able from the point of appearance of business support, competitiveness and practicability. The accolade underlines the accent of cardinal IT appliance at aggregation level. The Handelsblatt will present this accolade for the fourth time. The programme and accolade are aswell declared in detail on the Internet at: www.konferenz.de/dne-strat08

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Claudia Büttner
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40549 Düsseldorf
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