The Irving Wladawsky-Berger Lecture, 21st March 2006
Date: 21st March 2006
Thank you to Irving Wladawsky-Berger for his stimulating lecture and all the people who attended the event, which was co-sponsored by Manchester Business School, The School of Informatics and The School of Computer Science in association with IBM.
About Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger is responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT industry, and for organizing appropriate activities in and outside IBM in order to capitalize on them. In conjunction with that, he leads a number of key innovation-oriented activities and formulates technology strategy and public policy positions in support of them. During the last 10 years, he has ed a number of IBM’s companywide initiatives including IBM’s Internet initiative, Linux, IBM’s Next Generation Internet efforts, and its work on Grid computing. Most recently, he led IBM’s On Demand business initiative.
Synopsis
"Enabling a Business Process Revolution"
A digital revolution, led by continuing advances in IT, and an Internet revolution, born of open standards, are begetting a business process revolution. It, in turn, is creating conditions for a “perfect storm” of collaborative innovation with the potential to restructure individual enterprises and entire industries, perhaps even entire economies.
But for such a revolution to take hold, we need major advances in the design, construction, deployment and support of business processes and the underlying IT infrastructure. In particular, we need to evolve from today's labor-intensive, one-of-a-kind approaches to the use of sophisticated tools, engineering-like disciplines and methodologies, and standard business components. This will require significant innovation in the worlds of IT and of business. Just as it enabled us to produce the man made marvels of the physical world, the engineering model is the most promising way to deliver the sophisticated solutions that promise to revolutionize business processes and business itself.
Would a successful business process revolution reshape the world’s economy? Might we see the emergence of collaborative industry ecosystems? Would it produce new levels of productivity? What would it mean for education, healthcare and standards of living? We cannot know definitively at this point: But it seems quite possible that some future historian will have to devise a term to distinguish this emerging era from the Industrial Revolution.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM Corporation.
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L-R John Arnold, Chris Taylor, Irving Wladawsky-Berger and Bob Wood.
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L-R Alistair Ulph, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Ian Nussey, Alison Bowen and John Perkins.
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger during the lecture.
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L-R John Arnold, Irving Wladawsky-Berger and Alistair Ulph.
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