If you are a student deciding what career you wish to embark on and/or which university programme to pursue, this seminar will be of interest
and benefit to you!
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11 March 2006 (Saturday) |
| Time: |
10 am - 12 noon |
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Conference Hall, Level 5
Administration Building
Singapore Management University
81 Victoria Street
Singapore 188065
[MAP] |
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Since the dot.com market crash at the outset of this millennium, businesses around the world have continued to embrace IT emphatically and pervasively even as the pundits were predicting the demise of IT as a promising career for bright young minds preparing for university.
The conventional wisdom of the doomsday prophets has been proven wrong. In his widely acclaimed new book, “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century,” author Thomas Friedman has come up with findings unnoticed by the popular press. He observes that IT innovations such as the internet, web browser, workflow software, open source software, out-sourcing, off-shoring, in-sourcing, supply chaining, and informing has transformed a workforce that is increasingly digital, mobile, personal and virtual into a global source of manpower. He notes that this new IT driven global manpower web has just added a large chunk from the new 3 billion success minded, prosperity focused, low cost, highly trained manpower from China, Eastern Europe and India into the mainstream of the global base of human capital. He concludes that businesses that have embraced this IT driven change have done well for themselves.
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Move over naysayers. The dark days of IT are behind us. Globalized innovation firmly rooted in horizontal collaboration across all continents using the “connect and collaborate world” of Blogs, Instant messengers, Skype and other Open software is moving IT to newer heights. There is hardly any type of business that has not been affected by IT. Believers in the ability of IT to transform the future of their business have benefited extensively from it and the rest have paid a heavy price for not embracing these abilities soon enough.
Given this trend, it is imperative for future business leaders to know, adopt and leverage IT. Business leaders who do not realize that IT is a powerful engine of business advantage and value creation are destined to become dinosaurs. Training in both Business and IT is the best strategy for young minds aspiring to become global business leaders.
In this Industry Day event for Business IT, we are pleased to bring you delightful nuggets from speakers representing big businesses, government and small and medium enterprises. Learn how IT is fast becoming a key enabler of all businesses riding this new wave of innovation and growth. For the very first time, we are also fielding our SMU Business IT students in the panel along with the experts so that you could get views from those closer to you.
Do not miss this golden opportunity to design a bright future for yourself. Listen to the views of our dynamic industry leaders and lively students. Be there and make a smart choice. Join Business IT programs.
Our Distinguished Speakers
Ms Wu Choy Peng, Deputy Chief Executive & Government Chief Information Officer,
Infocomm Development Authority (IDA)
Mr Arvind Agarwalla, CEO and founder of Vedika Software Pvt Ltd (India),
FACT Software International Pte Ltd (Singapore) and FACT System Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)
Mr Jan Verplancke, Chief Information Officer, Group Head of Technology & Operations,
Standard Chartered Bank
Dr Steven Miller, Practice Professor and Founding Dean, School of Information Systems, SMU
Ms Cho Lai Peng, First year SMU student, School of Information Systems
Moderator
Mr Andrew Wong, First year SMU student, School of Information Systems
Kindly REGISTER if you are interested to attend. Seats are limited and given on first-come-first served basis. Register early to avoid disappointment.
For enquiries, please call 65 6828 0305 or email admissions@smu.edu.sg.
We look forward to seeing you at the event.
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