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• IT Procurement Meeting (Procurement Members Only)

  • Start
    Thursday, April 18, 2019
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  • End
    Thursday, January 16, 2020
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Location Rotates Quarterly

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  IT Procurement Group Meeting 
  Attendees: IT Procurement Group Members Only

  Contact Melissa Engle at mengle@itma.net for questions about the meeting or to verify if your company qualifies as a potential member. 

  
  

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• Cloud Automation, New Approaches for Provisioning and Managing

  • When
    Thursday, September 12, 2019
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    8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    NEW LOCATION! Notos Banquet Facility, 6600 28th St SE • Grand Rapids, MI 49546
  • Spaces left
    85

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  Cloud Automation
  New Approaches for Provisioning and Managing
  Cloud automation is a broad term that refers to the processes and tools an organization uses to reduce the manual efforts associated with provisioning and managing cloud computing workloads. IT teams can apply cloud automation to private, public and hybrid cloud environments. With cloud automation, an organization eliminates the repetitive and manual processes for workload deployment and management. To achieve cloud automation, an IT team needs to use orchestration and automation tools that run on top of their virtualized environment. Orchestration enables an administrator to codify the various steps and processes involved with workload deployment and management, while automation invokes those steps without human intervention. Learn from other ITMA members how they are taking making an impact with cloud automation.
  
  When implemented properly, cloud automation saves an IT team time and money. It also leads to fewer errors, as organizations can construct more predictable and reliable workflows. This plays directly into better IT and corporate governance.

  Details coming soon. Please take note of our NEW Meeting Location - Notos in Cascade, MI (Map & Address Below)

       Agenda

  8:00 - 8:30 | Registration & Networking
  
  8:30 - 8:45 | Welcome & Introductions
  
  8:45 - 8:55 | Sponsor Profile
  

  8:55 - 9:10 | Member Profile

  9:10 - 9:50 | Sean Henkel, Enterprise Infrastructure Director, Spectrum Health
  
  9:50 - 10:05 | Break
  
  10:05 - 10:45 | Bill Dewitt, Director IT Infrastructure Gordon Food Service
  
  10:50 - 11:30 | Nate Dykens, Enterprise IT Cloud Architect, Amway

  11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion & Lunch  
  
  

  Map & Parking - Please take notice of our NEW Meeting Location!
  Notos is located 1 1/4 mile east of I-96 on 28th Street (Exit 43B), on the south side of the street - 6600 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. Parking is free.
  
  Map to Notos Old World Italian Dining  

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• SAFe as a Viable Solution to improve both Prioritization and Execution

  • When
    Thursday, October 10, 2019
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    8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    NEW LOCATION! Notos Banquet Facility, 6600 28th St SE • Grand Rapids, MI 49546
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    125

  SAFe as a Viable Solution to Improve both Prioritization and Execution
  In today's connected world, ideas can spread and like wildfire. New technologies emerge continuously and so do new processes to support them. The need to manage multiple initiatives with significant interdependencies is becoming more important as agile and lean are being used to produce results faster. Essentially a blending of prioritization and project “management”, the term used is scaling. There are many frameworks and methodologies that have emerged for scaling, including the least prescriptive, Scrum of Scrums (SoS), to more regimented frameworks, such as Large Scaled Scrum (LeSS), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DaD) and many homegrown scaled approaches (i.e. Spotify). One scaling approach that has been gaining momentum is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), whose adoption rate has grown by nearly dramatically. SAFe provides a detailed and sophisticated framework to the complex problems of delivering quality software at the large scale of 50 or more people. The framework has been successful organizations showing improvements of up to 75% in TTM (time to market), increases of 50% in productivity and 50% decreases in defects -- not to mention overall increases in happiness within delivery teams.
  In this session learn the essentials of SAFe and understand how to scale the framework to fit your organization from large to small.
  Details coming soon. Please take note of our NEW Meeting Location - Notos in Cascade, MI (Map & Address Below)

       Agenda

  8:00 - 8:30 | Registration & Networking
  
  8:30 - 8:45 | Welcome & Introductions
  
  8:45 - 8:55 | Sponsor Profile
  

  8:55 - 9:10 | Member Profile - National Heritage Academies
  Jim Hines, Director of Information Technology

  9:10 - 10:00 | Content Expert
  
  10:00- 10:15 | Break
  
  10:15 - 11:30 | Presenter and/or Panel

  11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion & Lunch  
  
  

  Map & Parking - Please take notice of our NEW Meeting Location!
  Notos is located 1 1/4 mile east of I-96 on 28th Street (Exit 43B), on the south side of the street - 6600 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. Parking is free.
  
  Map to Notos Old World Italian Dining  

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• Data Quality, Curing the Negative Business Impact of Poor Data Quality

  • When
    Thursday, November 14, 2019
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    8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    NEW LOCATION! Notos Banquet Facility, 6600 28th St SE • Grand Rapids, MI 49546
  • Spaces left
    125

  Data Quality
  Curing the Negative Business Impact of Poor Data Quality

  People and things are waiting for quality data. If the data is not complete, on-time and accurate there multiple negative business implications. It goes beyond dollars and cents. Bad data slows employees down, they feel their performance is suffering. According to the Harvard Business Review, the reason bad data costs so much is that decision makers, managers, knowledge workers, data scientists, and others must accommodate it in their everyday work. And doing so is both time-consuming and expensive. The data that is needed may have plenty of errors, and in the face of a critical deadline, many individuals simply make corrections themselves to complete the task at hand...aka the “hero” approach. Bad data is bad for business. Ovum Research reported that poor quality data is costing businesses at least 30% of revenues. Excess inventory, scrap, rework, mis-schedules are just a few examples of the impact. Resulting in reduced revenue, decreased margins and worst of all, unhappy customers.
  
  In this session you will learn approaches for significantly improving data quality within your organization. From master data, through transactional data to analytics data. If your plan is to become a “Digital Business” you have to have a solid data foundation.

  Details coming soon. Please take note of our NEW Meeting Location - Notos in Cascade, MI (Map & Address Below)

       Agenda

  8:00 - 8:30 | Registration & Networking
  
  8:30 - 8:45 | Welcome & Introductions
  
  8:45 - 8:55 | Sponsor Profile
  

  8:55 - 9:10 | Member Profile

  9:10 - 10:00 | Content Expert
  
  10:00- 10:15 | Break
  
  10:15 - 11:30 | Presenter and/or Panel

  11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion & Lunch  
  
  

  Map & Parking - Please take notice of our NEW Meeting Location!
  Notos is located 1 1/4 mile east of I-96 on 28th Street (Exit 43B), on the south side of the street - 6600 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. Parking is free.
  
  Map to Notos Old World Italian Dining  

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• The Role of IT in Digital Transformation, Are you Where you Want to Be?

  • When
    Thursday, December 12, 2019
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    8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    NEW LOCATION! Notos Banquet Facility, 6600 28th St SE • Grand Rapids, MI 49546
  • Spaces left
    125

  The Role of IT in Digital Transformation
  Are you where you want to be? 
  There are four distinct roles that IT can potentially play in its company’s Digital Transformation (DX) activities. These roles are Observer, Requestor, Implementor and Leader. The role that IT is allowed to play is based on two primary determining factors, IT’s organizational clout within the overall company and IT’s willingness and ability to innovate. Where would you put your role today and where do you want it to be.
  In this session learn about the different roles IT can fulfill and what steps you need to take in your roadmap to fulfill the role you believe is right for your IT organization.
  Details coming soon. Please take note of our NEW Meeting Location - Notos in Cascade, MI (Map & Address Below)

       Agenda

  8:00 - 8:30 | Registration & Networking
  
  8:30 - 8:45 | Welcome & Introductions
  
  8:45 - 8:55 | Sponsor Profile
  

  8:55 - 9:10 | Member Profile

  9:10 - 10:00 | Content Expert
  
  10:00- 10:15 | Break
  
  10:15 - 11:30 | Presenter and/or Panel

  11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion & Lunch  
  
  

  Map & Parking - Please take notice of our NEW Meeting Location!
  Notos is located 1 1/4 mile east of I-96 on 28th Street (Exit 43B), on the south side of the street - 6600 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. Parking is free.
  
  Map to Notos Old World Italian Dining  

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