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2009 Meeting Schedule

January 13

February 17

April 21

May 27

Summer Meeting - Rockies Game
August 7

Fall IT Summit
with CXO and SPARK

November 10

December 1

The Society for Information Management (SIM) is a not-for-profit organization of information technology experts, including CIO's, CTO's and emerging IT leaders, as well as key professionals within the IT community, such as academicians and consultants. SIM's mission is to support IT leaders in the greater Colorado area by increasing the knowledge base of members, giving back to local communities, increasing awareness on issues of importance to our local community, developing the next generation of effective IT leaders and establishing a forum to bring together IT professionals across industries.
Wednesday May 27, 2009

Maggiano's Downtown Denver
500 16th Street Mall, Denver
5:00 pm Cocktails, 5:45 pm Dinner, 6:45-9:00 pm Event

Emerging and Converging Generations and Technologies
SIM Denver 2009 Program Series

Leadership Development: Forging Good Leaders in Bad Times
Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation

Speaker: James Marlatt
Senior Instructor at CU Boulder

Jim teaches classes such as project management, accounting information systems and introduction to operations and information management at the Leeds School of Business. In addition to his teaching duties, he is also responsible for managing student consulting projects for local companies ( For more details about this program, go to www.CUaccelerate.com). The past two years, Jim has been a finalist for the Frascona teaching excellence award at the Leeds School.

Prior to his teaching career, Jim started and ran several large consulting businesses for Arthur Andersen in Moscow, Russia and Atlanta, Georgia. This work primarily focused on implementing Enterprise Systems, including PeopleSoft and SAP for large clients such as Johnson & Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, Mars, Syktyvkar Pulp and Paper, Pepsi, Shell, Public Service of North Carolina, Quintiles Transnational, etc.

During Jim's twenty-five year career, he has developed people from all four generations and five continents to successfully deliver on projects. Alexandra Ivanova, a former colleague in Moscow said this about Jim “He taught us to be very attentive to people, how to trust them.” Although the generations have changed, leadership is still about providing your people with the opportunity to take risks, taking responsibility as the leader for their actions and of course being there for them when they make mistakes.

For the first time ever IT organizations are staffed with 4 generations of employees -- what does that mean for Leadership Development?

Wikipedia defines Leadership Development as any activity that enhances the quality of leadership within an individual or organization. And as CIO magazine's May 1, 2009 edition discusses, "Leadership Development doesn't stop when the going gets tough..."

Interactive Session:
Take the Future State CIO Assessment on-line and bring it to the meeting:
http://council.cio.com/content.html?content_id=24.8a6.2590c5fa

Join local IT professionals to discuss the Future State CIO Leader and see where you stand on 9 core competencies:

Market knowledge
External customer focus
Commercial orientation
Strategic orientation
Change leadership
Collaboration and influence
Results orientation
People & organizational development

We'll discuss…

  • What is the next step in IT Business Leadership and how will we get there in this economy?
  • How are we going to develop leadership when each generation "processes" life and technology differently?
  • How do we prepare leaders for ever increasing and unforeseen global challenges and competition?
  • What are the new leadership tools and opportunities?



Friday August 7, 2009
Summer Meeting - Colorado Rockies Games

Executive Profiles

Presentations from prior meetings