Breakfast Breakout Sessions
Wednesday, September 26
7:15am - 8:00am
The purpose of the
breakout luncheon is to provide you with information about a
specific approach or solution and to give you the opportunity to
ask questions in an informal setting. It is also a chance for
you to meet with others who have similar interests.
 Implementing
Strategic Priorities: Who Decides What Doesn't Get Done 
Bill Kern
CEO
IPS Associates
Why is it that so many leading,
well-respected companies and government agencies worldwide
struggle to convert their strategic priorities into timely and
profitable operating results? Delivering strategic initiatives
on time, on budget and within management expectations is more of
a challenge today than ever. Why?
Nowadays, so much has been fit into the pipeline that
doing it all is no longer possible. When this happens, someone
has to decide what doesn’t get done. But in most
corporations the prioritization of individual projects has been
inadvertently delegated to the lowest levels of the
organization.
A company’s ability to bridge the gap between strategy
and the operating state where profits are generated is
fundamentally a project management problem. Yet, most executives
have never been trained to recognize this fact, let alone
understand the fundamental underpinnings of the solution. Worse
yet, many executives inadvertently widen the gap by advocating
the once-reliable "just do it" approach to implementing
strategy.
In this mode, executives actually lose control of
their ability to guarantee that strategic priorities are being
executed effectively.
In this interactive session, Bill Kern will discuss
the issue of executing strategic priorities and creating a
culture that rewards project management excellence and on-time,
on-budget results.
ABOUT BILL KERN
As a co-founder in 1988, Bill
Kern established IPS Associates to address the need in high-tech
corporations for improved expertise and execution in delivering
project implementation on time, on budget and with expected
results. Under his leadership, IPS is now recognized globally as
a distinctive leader in project management services. Operating
from its headquarters in Silicon Valley, with offices in
Singapore and London and senior professionals located throughout
the world, IPS services an elite list of Fortune’s Global 500
clients.
Prior to co-founding IPS, Kern
served in several roles at the pioneering project management
software company, Computer Aided Management (CAM). There, he
provided training and consulting for clients such as
Hewlett-Packard Company, Pacific Gas & Electric and Xerox. He
established a European network of value-added retailers in just
eight months, while simultaneously providing these new clients
with training and consulting
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