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Foresight 2008 is the only virtual forum designed to provide project-focused professional services firms with the tools they need to navigate current market challenges, increase profitability and win more work contracts.
Get information on everything from improving utilization to increasing revenues and retaining customers and learn tips and tricks from our lineup of world-class experts and industry leaders.
Foresight 2008 Professional Services Forum is a unique interactive conference that offers attendees access to experts, peers and resources in a single location.
Registration is FREE and you control your level of participation. Drop in for one session or participate all day!
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Foresight 2008 Keynote Speaker: Ray Wang, Forrester
Top 10 Ways Services Firms Can Harness Change To Create Profit
11:00 a.m. to Noon
Ray Wang, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester. With his understanding of the overall ecosystem of solutions, technology and system integrators, Ray provides strategy and guidance for clients navigating through the vendor selection process. In 2008 Ray was recognized by the Institute Of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) as Analyst of the Year.
AE Keynote Speaker: Kim Kennedy, McGraw Hill
AEC Outlook
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Kim Kennedy, Manager of Forecasting for McGraw-Hill Construction Research & Analytics, the research and consulting business unit within McGraw-Hill Construction. She has been a member of MHC Analytics for ten years, but has more than 25 years of professional experience in construction economics, macroeconomics, consumer, and labor economics.
Consulting Keynote Speakers: Gail Steinel & Jeanne Urich
Turning a Volatile Market into a Growth Opportunity
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Gail P. Steinel is the former global managing partner and founding member of Arthur Andersen's business consulting practice from 1984 to June 2002 where she managed 10,000 people in 85 countries. From July 2002 through February 2007 she was Executive Vice President with BearingPoint, Inc., a management and technology consulting firm that provides application services, technology solutions and managed services to companies and government organizations, where she had responsibility for overseeing the global commercial services business unit. Currently Gail is the Owner of Executive Advisors, which provides consulting services to chief executive officers and leadership seminars to companies.
Jeanne Urich is a management consultant specializing in Service organization improvement for small to large technology companies. She has been a corporate officer and leader of the Worldwide Services Organizations of Vignette, Blue Martini and Clarify. In each of these roles, she led the growth of their Professional Services, Education, Account Management and Alliances organizations and was responsible for dramatically increasing Services revenue, profit and utilization while maintaining a balanced relationship with system integration partners.
AE Keynote Speaker: David Burstein, PSMJ
Controlling Overhead To Strengthen Your Firm
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
David Burstein, PE. Director of Client Services, PSMJ Resources, Inc. David is a consultant with PSMJ Resources, Inc., a leading provider of consulting services to the design and construction industry. David has three decades of design firm experience in a variety of management positions including president of two large engineering companies. As a PSMJ consultant, he has helped dozens of design firms achieve breakthrough improvements in their businesses.
Consulting Keynote Speaker: Joe Kornik, Consulting Magazine
New Economy, More Competition. Time for a Strategy Refresh
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Joe Kornik is Editor-in-Chief of Consulting magazine where he oversees the editorial operations and mission of the magazine. Mr. Kornik is also responsible for the magazine's Web site (www.ConsultingMag.com) and all live and virtual events, including the Consulting Summit - the largest annual gathering of management consultants in North America