The IT Executive Exchange (ITEE) is a forum for IT Executives and College of Business Administration professors at The University of Akron. Meetings take place every six to eight weeks to discuss pressing and leading edge issues.

The purpose of this forum is to have a healthy exchange of ideas that will be useful to all attendees. It is sponsored by the Center for Information Technologies and eBusiness (CITe) of the University of Akron’s College of Business Administration.

ITEE Meeting

Business Models and IT Support in the Age of Disruption

Date
March 22, 2019

Location
CBA 258 (Murphy Room), The University of Akron, Akron, OH

Time
Networking: 2:00pm to 2:30pm
Discussions: 2:30pm to 4:30pm

Sponsor: Center for IT & eBusiness (CITe)

Topic Description:

Almost any business -- you! -- must now contend with potential disruption by new or revamped old businesses that understand your customers better than you do. (To cite a Michael Porter example: before you made tractors, now your smart tractors are just one element of a farm management ecosystem.) What are you actually selling? What are the core needs your products and services actually meet, as expressed by the behavior of consumers? Quite simply, firms that understand better are disrupting, or will disrupt, ones who don't. And this simple question of what are you selling has profound implications for your enterprise architecture, defined by Gartner as "the organizing logic for an organization’s IT infrastructure and business process capabilities." How well do you understand your current business model? How is that model changing, and does your enterprise understand the change? Is IT keeping up? Are you at risk of disruption? Come to the next IT Executive Exchange forum to gaze into the future with your peers.

If you are interested in attending the meeting, please register through RSVP link.