In the past few decades there were lots of changes and innovations that significantly affected the way of conducting business. For example, from the management technology perspective, we have different emphasizes: productivity in the 70’s, quality/JIT in the 80’s, changes and re-engineering dominated the 90’s. Whereas, dramatic and rapid inventions of information technology completely automate our business processes and drastically shorten cycle time. From basically manual approach we now have migrated to a electronic business era.

Many have harvested the results of automation, while, on the contrary, suffered from inappropriate IT investment and most are puzzling what will come next in the IT and business system evolution.

In this session, we will review how and why business application systems evolved from the 60/70’s to the 90’s according to: 

1. Global Economy; 

2. Management Technology; 

3. Production/Planning Strategy; and 

4. Information Technology. 

By understanding the all these changes and their rationales behind, we then project the future evolution. By understanding this “metamorphosis”, business operators could then realize what they should prepare themselves for the present and the future e-business arena  so as to establish and sustain their competitive advantage over their competitions.

At the end of the session, attendants should:

1. Thoroughly understand the business application systems and their genuine value added to the corporation so that they could equip and implement proper business application systems.

2. Understand, through the system implementation process, what other critical changes and preparation their corporation should be conducted to complement.

Better and appropriately prepare themselves for the future e-business environment while avoiding inappropriate and expensive IT investment.

CEO, CIO, CFO, Senior Executives of various disciplines, Manufacturing Executives, Production/Material Planning and Control Executives, Department Managers