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Session 26: How the IT Revolution Is Impacting Business Planning and Operations: Tactical and Strategic Implications
IT has had a large impact on how companies do business and on the types of business they pursue. In this session, speakers from a diverse set of companies will describe how IT has impacted their companies' operations and strategies.
Sponsor: Corporate Planning Roundtable
Presentations
Jim Meil: How the IT Revolution Is Impacting Business Planning and Operations
Sydney Smith Hicks: The IT Revolution - Impacting Operations and Business Strategy
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Speakers
Harry Homan
Senior Director
Strategic Development
Fluor Corporation
Harry Homan is currently Senior Director, Strategic Development, Fluor Corporation.
Fluor is one of the world’s largest publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance organization, with annual revenues of approximately $10 billion.
Harry leads a team which identifies opportunities arising from changes in the external environment; looks at how to enhance the company’s overall competitive position; and coordinates the company’s strategic planning process. He also helps the business units test the robustness of their plans and develop strategic options, appraises enterprise risk and advises the corporation on portfolio issues.
Harry has a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Southern California. His responsibilities at Fluor have included economic forecasting, marketing research and planning, technology development, finance & administration, business & competitor intelligence and strategic planning. Prior to joining Fluor he spent two years with DuPont in product and process development.
Harry is currently chairman of NABE’s Corporate Planning Roundtable. He is active in a variety of professional associations including the National Business Economic Issues Council and Association for Strategic Planning, and previously served on the Conference Board Association of Strategic Planning Executives and as chairman of the Southern California section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Jim Meil
Chief Economist
Eaton Corporation
Sydney Smith Hicks
Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Metavante Corporation
Sydney Smith Hicks, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry including banking, working with the Federal Reserve and as an academic professor. In her current role, she is responsible for shaping the company’s ongoing strategies and developing plans that will accelerate revenue growth.
Prior to her current position, she was president of VECTORsgi, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Metavante, where she was responsible for maximizing business performance and strategically guiding the growth and expansion of VECTORsgi. Prior to Metavante’s acquisition of VECTORsgi, Hicks was senior vice president of Sterling Commerce and president of the Banking Systems Division of Sterling Commerce. For more than six years prior to that she was vice president of Operations and Business Development with the Banking Systems Division, where she led new business development, supervised product acquisitions and was responsible for managing the strategy, design, development, maintenance, installation services and customized consulting for 11 product solutions, which contained over 50 products.
Hicks brings extensive knowledge of banking and electronic transactions from NationsBank, a predecessor of Bank of America, where she served as senior vice president of Transaction Solutions and Image Initiatives. Hicks was chief economist for NCNB (and First Republic and InterFirst), financial economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a visiting scholar for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. During her career, she has also held a board position with the Electronic Check Clearing House Organization (ECCHO), was the founding chairman of the board of Payment Systems Network (PSN), now owned by The Clearing House Payments Company, and held various academic positions. In the Dallas area community, Hicks is and has been on the boards of several not-for-profits and currently serves on the board of a privately held for-profit company, Smart Start, Inc, an ignition interlock company.
Hicks earned both a master’s degree and a doctorate in Economics from Washington University. She also has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell College, where she graduated with distinction
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