Moderator Eric Keller queries the panel on topics such as offshoring, business ethics and hot application areas for the next few years. Experts on the panel advise companies to commoditize products and target vertical market space to have a good shot at survival and growth. They observe that 91% of more than 1000 companies suryveyed do business with China in some form. While companies will outsource more to other countries, the core will remain with the parent company and will differentiate it from others.
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Erik Keller has been a participant in the information technology industry for over 20 years in a variety of roles and formed Wapiti LLC in January 1999. As principal of Wapiti, he has provided strategic consulting services for dozens of companies seeking advice on enterprise-software business models and technologies. Erik currently consults with venture-capital firms, works with a variety of enterprise software companies on both a project and retainer basis, and key buyers of technology products. In the past he has authored columns for Manufacturing Systems, Managing Automation and other trade magazines. He is currently a columnist for MSI magazine. In the spring of 2004 his book, Technology Paradise Lost , which predicts the future of IT spending in corporations was published.
Before forming Wapiti, Erik was a Research Fellow, Director of Research and Vice President with Gartner Inc. While with Gartner, he managed the enterprise software group, which had over 45 analysts in the areas of front-office, back-office and e-commerce software. With Gartner for more than a decade, Erik has worked with over 1,000 companies worldwide (including many of the Fortune 100) to advise them how to deploy and develop information technology strategies with an emphasis in the manufacturing sector.
James Bedard is President & CEO, Aberdeen Group and is directly responsible for the strategic direction, research point of view, and the day-to-day operations of the organization. Before joining Aberdeen Group, Mr. Bedard helped in building GEN3 Partners. As president of GEN3 Partners, Mr. Bedard developed an innovative business model that delivered solution-based marketing programs to drive deal flow and "private-label" professional services to software companies below the current internal cost structure of their professional services organizations.
Prior to his tenure at GEN3, Mr. Bedard was a partner and COO at Benchmarking Partners , a research-based consultancy that focused on IT-enabled value chain best practices. Over a three-year period, Mr. Bedard developed a $30 million, 140-person consulting practice focused on research-based go-to-market strategies for software companies and ROI from implementing IT-enabled best practices for end-clients. Mr. Bedard spearheaded the development of supply chain collaboration, resulting in the first industry wide, Internet-based B2B standard for collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR).
John Rymer is Vice President of Forrester Research . As an analyst on the Application Development & Infrastructure research team, John covers application servers and platforms, including J2EE application servers and Microsoft's competing technologies. John has 14 years of experience as an industry analyst, business strategy consultant, and software-marketing executive. Previously, John served as a vice president of product marketing at IONA Technologies, where he gained firsthand experience in creating and executing market strategies. John played a key role in launching Iona's Web Services Integration product set, formulating the strategy. John was also a member of Iona's senior management team.
In late 1994, John helped to found Giga Information Group, which Forrester acquired in 2003. Most recently at Giga, John was vice president and research leader, specializing in distributed application development tools and platforms. In 1997, John earned the Giga Research Achievement Award. Prior to joining Giga, John spent six years as vice president and senior consultant with the Patricia Seybold Group, a technology research firm specializing in emerging distributed and network computing technologies, including CORBA, Microsoft COM, C++ and Smalltalk, and message - oriented middleware.
Jorge Lopez Vice President of Gartner G2 . He is based in the United States, focused on building and managing the flexible, real-time business. His responsibilities include researching and identifying best practices, frameworks and approaches for creating the next-generation enterprise, providing frameworks to capitalize on customer priorities as leading indicators of behavior and identifying critical cross-industry business issues and produce research that addresses each issue.
Jorge has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry including various executive roles in marketing and sales, research and development, implementation services, strategic planning, and corporate business development. Jorge has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering fom Rice University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Notre Dame.
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