Raising the ROI of IT
The role of the Chief Information Officer has grown in lockstep with the strategic importance of information and knowledge management inside companies. Their ability to think strategically about information technology can help a company innovate, grow markets, streamline operations, cut costs, and improve competitiveness.
Now, CIOs are poised to help companies become greener, and enable a more efficient operation. From building high-efficiency data centers to managing energy use throughout a global operation to reducing travel needs to telepresence solutions, the CIO’s green toolkit is growing.
Join GreenBiz.com executive editor Joel Makower in a 50-minute conversation with Steve Sams, IBM's Vice President, Global Site & Facilities, as they explore the “greening of the CIO.” You’ll learn best practices inside today’s leading companies, and hear the results of a new 2,500-CIO study conducted by IBM, including the implications for CIO’s greening their companies.
Speaker Biographies
Steven Sams is vice president of Site and Facilities Services in IBM Global Technology Services. He is responsible for a worldwide organization that is dedicated to helping clients identify their requirements, current capabilities, and best options for data centers. This includes building new facilities, and optimizing, relocating or consolidating existing facilities. The Site and Facilities Services organization that Steve oversees includes 700 specialists in over 40 countries that have built over 30 million square feet of customer raised floor. Steven has also been quoted and published in numerous publications most notably on the power and cooling issues facing companies today. He’s recently been quoted in BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, ComputerWorld and CFO Research and has been published in the Harvard Business Review and Financial Times. He holds a Bachelor of Science from McMaster University and a Master of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Moderated by: Joel Makower is Executive Editor of GreenBiz.com and author of "Strategies for the Green Economy," among other books. For more than 20 years, he has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. He is a regular lecturer to companies and business groups and has served as a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. From 1991 to 2005, Joel was editor of The Green Business Letter, an award-winning monthly newsletter on corporate environmental strategy. The Associated Press has called Joel "the guru of green business practices."