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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:a10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>ITA: Roundtable Recent Activity</title><link>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11/rss/activity</link><description /><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 02:05:56 Z</lastBuildDate><image><url>http://www.illinoistech.org/images/favicon.ico</url><title>ITA: Roundtable Recent Activity</title><link>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11/rss/activity</link></image><a10:id>ItaRoundtableActivity</a10:id><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.illinoistech.org/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity" /><feedburner:info uri="ita-ceonorthsubburbsroundtablerecentactivity" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/6443</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/_tUpEElLChU/6443</link><author>Mary Jane Rouchka</author><title>Added Health IT: What's Next in Digital IT event / CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs</title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 12px; float: right ! important; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); margin-right: 0px; padding: 5px 16px 11px; width: 20%;" class="eventInfo"&gt;&lt;div class="infoLine" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px; color:#999999 !important; font-size:11px !important; line-height:15px;"&gt;&lt;div class="datetime" style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;margin:10px 0;"&gt;Thursday, April 26, 2012&lt;br&gt;&lt;span class="time" style="color:#666666; font-size:11px;"&gt;5:00 - 9:00 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="location" style="color:#999999 !important;font-size:11px !important;line-height:15px;"&gt;Tripp Lite World Headquarters, 1111 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 216, 0); font-weight: bold; float: left; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 5px 3px 6px;" class="regToEventArea eventButton"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt 15px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline: medium none; line-height: 25px;" href="/event.aspx/6443" id="altSubscribeFormOpener"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: left ! important; position: relative; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a class="iCal" style="font-size: 12px; background: url('http://www.illinoistech.org/images/ical-ico.gif') no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="/iCalendarExportHandler.axd?event_id=6443"&gt;iCal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Meeting Location: 
Tripp Lite World Headquarters 
1111 W. 35th Street 
Chicago, IL 60609 USA 

Agenda 
5:00 pm - Registration, Refreshments, &amp;amp; Networking 
6:00 pm - Speaker Presentations 
7:15 pm - Open Q&amp;amp;A 
8:15 pm - Refreshments &amp;amp; Networking 
9:00 pm - Adjournment 

Register Securely Online at www.gcchimss.net/calendar

&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/_tUpEElLChU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2012-04-23T21:22:04Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/6443</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/6185</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/33OeYz__iGg/6185</link><author>Linda Coonen</author><title>Added 2012 CMS Expo Learning &amp; Business Conference event / CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs</title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 12px; float: right ! important; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); margin-right: 0px; padding: 5px 16px 11px; width: 20%;" class="eventInfo"&gt;&lt;div class="infoLine" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px; color:#999999 !important; font-size:11px !important; line-height:15px;"&gt;&lt;div class="datetime" style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;margin:10px 0;"&gt;Tuesday, May 8, 2012&lt;br&gt;&lt;span class="time" style="color:#666666; font-size:11px;"&gt;7:30 AM - 7:30 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="location" style="color:#999999 !important;font-size:11px !important;line-height:15px;"&gt;Hilton Orrington Hotel, Chicago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 216, 0); font-weight: bold; float: left; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 5px 3px 6px;" class="regToEventArea eventButton"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt 15px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline: medium none; line-height: 25px;" href="/event.aspx/6185" id="altSubscribeFormOpener"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: left ! important; position: relative; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a class="iCal" style="font-size: 12px; background: url('http://www.illinoistech.org/images/ical-ico.gif') no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="/iCalendarExportHandler.axd?event_id=6185"&gt;iCal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;CMS Expo is a high-value experience for web business leaders and the whole Content Team: marketers, designers, writers, developers and admins. The 6th annual CMS Expo features 80-plus sessions in 7 tracks, from 50 speakers, focused on delivering reliable, relevant, actionable advice.
CMS Expo is a user-driven conference. In other words, the sessions are not PR spin or sales pitches by vendors; the purpose of the learning sessions is for just that, learning &amp; discovery. CMS Expo is exists to help Content Pros from businesses, non-profits, education and government to make more informed decisions on their content management systems and the teams of people who power them.
Come for live site case studies and flyovers to learn about CMSs’ features and benefits. Experience head-to-head comparison panels and roundtables, plus plenty of business networking and socials to get everyone involved and keep them up to speed. CMS Expo is great to make connections with the “who’s who” in the CMS community, while getting excellent advice from the best in the business. 
Learn more or sign up at www.CMSX.com &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/33OeYz__iGg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2012-03-09T21:46:50Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/6185</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/5946</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/9ZNJgUWs-q4/5946</link><author>Hemal Shrimanker</author><title>Added Wine and Shine: Be Agile with Mobile BI event / CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs</title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 12px; float: right ! important; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); margin-right: 0px; padding: 5px 16px 11px; width: 20%;" class="eventInfo"&gt;&lt;div class="infoLine" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px; color:#999999 !important; font-size:11px !important; line-height:15px;"&gt;&lt;div class="datetime" style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;margin:10px 0;"&gt;Thursday, February 23, 2012&lt;br&gt;&lt;span class="time" style="color:#666666; font-size:11px;"&gt;6:00 - 8:00 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="location" style="color:#999999 !important;font-size:11px !important;line-height:15px;"&gt;AON Center, Chicago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 216, 0); font-weight: bold; float: left; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 5px 3px 6px;" class="regToEventArea eventButton"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt 15px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline: medium none; line-height: 25px;" href="/event.aspx/5946" id="altSubscribeFormOpener"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: left ! important; position: relative; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a class="iCal" style="font-size: 12px; background: url('http://www.illinoistech.org/images/ical-ico.gif') no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="/iCalendarExportHandler.axd?event_id=5946"&gt;iCal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;With the extending usage and reach of organizations' existing BI infrastructure to mobile devices, they are able to respond faster and more efficiently to market changes and their client needs. This fast-tracks time-to-information for key business decisions, while improving customer satisfaction retention.

Attend this event and learn how to solve several crucial tasks in order to make business intelligence mobile applications work flawlessly and other organizational attributes for Mobile BI strategy success. Additionally, understand how SharePoint 2010 brings BI to the next level and enhance productivity. Consider some of the following benefits:
•	Allows users to create workbooks or diagrams and share that information with others easily
•	Enables your employees handle corporate data more efficiently
•	Provides you with an opportunity to raise your customer service standards
•	Offers interactive dashboards and scorecards that help you define and measure success
•	Helps you to optimize business processes

Get a chance to WIN a raffle when you attend the event. Register NOW... Limited seats available!

When:Feb 23, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM CT
Where: AON Center, Chicago, IL 60601, USA
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/9ZNJgUWs-q4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2012-01-30T03:35:39Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/5946</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/5689</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/SkhRK2fyTCw/5689</link><author>Hemal Shrimanker</author><title>Added Lunch n Learn on Mastering Revenue Game with Digital Marketing &amp; Social Media event / CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs</title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 12px; float: right ! important; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); margin-right: 0px; padding: 5px 16px 11px; width: 20%;" class="eventInfo"&gt;&lt;div class="infoLine" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px; color:#999999 !important; font-size:11px !important; line-height:15px;"&gt;&lt;div class="datetime" style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;margin:10px 0;"&gt;Tuesday, January 31, 2012&lt;br&gt;&lt;span class="time" style="color:#666666; font-size:11px;"&gt;11:30 AM - 1:30 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="location" style="color:#999999 !important;font-size:11px !important;line-height:15px;"&gt;AON Center, Chicago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 216, 0); font-weight: bold; float: left; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 5px 3px 6px;" class="regToEventArea eventButton"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt 15px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline: medium none; line-height: 25px;" href="/event.aspx/5689" id="altSubscribeFormOpener"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: left ! important; position: relative; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a class="iCal" style="font-size: 12px; background: url('http://www.illinoistech.org/images/ical-ico.gif') no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="/iCalendarExportHandler.axd?event_id=5689"&gt;iCal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;In this digital world, technology facilitates businesses through better targeting and more audience connections, superior brand expressions and customized customer experiences. To keep up with the speedy transformation in consumer behavior and advances in technology, today's companies need to adapt to the digital marketing platform and social media to offer more innovative and adaptive outcomes.

Attend this Lunch 'n Learn event on January 31, 2012 and learn how to master the revenue game with the help of Digital Marketing and Social Media tools, and achieve better business outcomes. Some of its benefits are that it helps in -

•	Leverage digital experiences to make your marketing program more influential
•	Create websites that drive revenue with the help of social and touch-based experiences
•	Build compelling websites that deliver rich customer experience

To learn more about such benefits, do register now and attend this event.

Register now at http://www.indusa.com/SPDigitalMktlnl.php&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/SkhRK2fyTCw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2012-01-06T03:41:13Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/5689</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/5372</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/TwsBJ3kEypg/5372</link><author>Julian Pretto</author><title>Added Business Networking Event at ChicagoMicro event / CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs</title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 12px; float: right ! important; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); margin-right: 0px; padding: 5px 16px 11px; width: 20%;" class="eventInfo"&gt;&lt;div class="infoLine" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px; color:#999999 !important; font-size:11px !important; line-height:15px;"&gt;&lt;div class="datetime" style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;margin:10px 0;"&gt;Thursday, November 17, 2011&lt;br&gt;&lt;span class="time" style="color:#666666; font-size:11px;"&gt;5:30 - 8:30 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="location" style="color:#999999 !important;font-size:11px !important;line-height:15px;"&gt;ChicagoMicro, 21 South Evergreen, 2nd floor, Arlington Heights, IL &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 216, 0); font-weight: bold; float: left; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 5px 3px 6px;" class="regToEventArea eventButton"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt 15px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline: medium none; line-height: 25px;" href="/event.aspx/5372" id="altSubscribeFormOpener"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: left ! important; position: relative; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a class="iCal" style="font-size: 12px; background: url('http://www.illinoistech.org/images/ical-ico.gif') no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="/iCalendarExportHandler.axd?event_id=5372"&gt;iCal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ChicagoMicro invites you to our next business networking event Thursday Nov 17th at our state of the art corporate headquarters located in downtown Arlington Heights.

Register here: http://suburbantech.eventbrite.com/ 
 
Enjoy the opportunity to explore new and emerging products and technologies and network with over 200 fellow business owners, service providers, and entrepreneurs! Like every other event we do, we'll have great food, cool refreshments,  excellent giveaways and of course a grand prize available to all registrants. Bring lots of business cards. There will be multiple drawings for prizes. Business owners are encouraged to bring their employees that handle IT or their outside IT consultants. 

Experts from companies such as Microsoft, HP, IBM, Cisco, and many others will be on hand.
 
Reserve your spot today! If you have additional questions, contact us at 877.832.4312 or by e-mail at social@chicagomicro.com
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/TwsBJ3kEypg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-10-31T14:28:42Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/5372</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/5240</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/1ykU-W3PHew/5240</link><author>Mitchell Lederer</author><title>Added Valkre Solutions Open House event / CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs</title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 12px; float: right ! important; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); margin-right: 0px; padding: 5px 16px 11px; width: 20%;" class="eventInfo"&gt;&lt;div class="infoLine" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px; color:#999999 !important; font-size:11px !important; line-height:15px;"&gt;&lt;div class="datetime" style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;margin:10px 0;"&gt;Friday, October 14, 2011&lt;br&gt;&lt;span class="time" style="color:#666666; font-size:11px;"&gt;3:00 - 8:00 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="location" style="color:#999999 !important;font-size:11px !important;line-height:15px;"&gt;Valkre Headquarters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 216, 0); font-weight: bold; float: left; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 5px 3px 6px;" class="regToEventArea eventButton"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt 15px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline: medium none; line-height: 25px;" href="/event.aspx/5240" id="altSubscribeFormOpener"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: left ! important; position: relative; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a class="iCal" style="font-size: 12px; background: url('http://www.illinoistech.org/images/ical-ico.gif') no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="/iCalendarExportHandler.axd?event_id=5240"&gt;iCal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Valkre Solutions is a powerful approach for Business-to-Business (B2B) companies to win with their customers.  The Differential Value Proposition (DVP) System is a SaaS platform that combines a Process, Dataset and Software to help B2B companies understand if their customers are making money doing business with them -- and if those B2B companies are rewarded for the investments they make on behalf of their customers.   DVP is the way to manage B2B relationships! Visit www.Valkre.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/1ykU-W3PHew" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-10-05T11:34:32Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/5240</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>Syed Asif Tanveer</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-09-09T06:25:33Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>Richard Alesky</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-08-24T15:29:13Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>Steven Schroeder</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-06-22T14:42:11Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>Jeff Scheur</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-06-18T16:35:33Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>Ryan Kuhn</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-06-07T13:51:48Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>Keith Bates</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-06-04T08:40:19Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/4481</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/wt5hKV6sybY/4481</link><author>Reena Teichman</author><title>Added The Conundrum of Project Scoping - Better, Faster, Cheaper event / CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs</title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 12px; float: right ! important; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); margin-right: 0px; padding: 5px 16px 11px; width: 20%;" class="eventInfo"&gt;&lt;div class="infoLine" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:5px; color:#999999 !important; font-size:11px !important; line-height:15px;"&gt;&lt;div class="datetime" style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;margin:10px 0;"&gt;Wednesday, June 1, 2011&lt;br&gt;&lt;span class="time" style="color:#666666; font-size:11px;"&gt;6:00 - 8:30 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="location" style="color:#999999 !important;font-size:11px !important;line-height:15px;"&gt;The Mid-America Club&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 216, 0); font-weight: bold; float: left; font-size: 15px; padding: 3px 5px 3px 6px;" class="regToEventArea eventButton"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt 15px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline: medium none; line-height: 25px;" href="/event.aspx/4481" id="altSubscribeFormOpener"&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: left ! important; position: relative; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 15px;"&gt;&lt;a class="iCal" style="font-size: 12px; background: url('http://www.illinoistech.org/images/ical-ico.gif') no-repeat scroll left top transparent; padding-left: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="/iCalendarExportHandler.axd?event_id=4481"&gt;iCal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rebecca Parsons will present "Better, Faster, Cheaper - which lever to pull in Project Scoping". She will then join a panel of several Chicago area executives who will share their views and experiences. A general Q&amp;A session follows in which you can engage and share with other local leaders your successes and challenges on this subject.

The phrase "better, faster, cheaper" was tossed around by the administrator of NASA in the US as a signal that the agency would do more with less. This productivity would be achieved by accepting significantly increased risk. However, most IT project teams are not in a position to increase risk significantly and understand that projects generally have to trade-off these three levers. Two of the goals are often achievable, but getting all three at the same time is difficult at best. While the notions of "faster" and "cheaper" have clear definitions, the interpretation of "better" is more varied. However, experiences show that focusing too long on "faster" or "cheaper", at the expense of "better", often leads to "slower" and "costlier".

This talk first describes the various dimensions of time and cost that underlie "faster" and "cheaper". Next we'll discuss in more detail the various dimensions of "better", including how these dimensions can be measured. We'll then discuss how leaning too hard on the "better" lever to achieve timeliness or economy ultimately leads to late deliveries and additional costs, with the sacrifices made to quality still in force. These descriptions provide a mechanism for more accurately deciding, in both the short and medium terms, when to pull which lever on a project and what the real consequences of that decision could be. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/wt5hKV6sybY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-05-10T10:15:58Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/event.aspx/4481</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>Rick Bolda</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2011-04-18T11:06:12Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>John Doe</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2010-09-10T15:37:42Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</guid><link>http://feeds.illinoistech.org/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~3/GrkkATQCqa0/11</link><author>John Doe</author><title>Joined CEO Roundtable: Northern Suburbs Roundtable </title><description>&lt;div style="position: relative; width: 100px; background: none repeat scroll 0pt 0pt rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 208); font-size: 0pt; line-height: 0pt; margin-right: 7px; padding: 6px; float: left;" class="image"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.illinoistech.org/FileTreeAjaxHandler.axd?filesystem=mainFilesystem&amp;action=download&amp;file=Roundtables\Images\ceo1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;" class="longDescription"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;FONT size=2 face=Arial&gt;The CEO Roundtable offers ITA industry member CEOs an executive-only forum to share their experiences with other chief executive officers of member technology companies. The Roundtable provides an opportunity to foster business development, share experiences and expertise, and develop mutually beneficial relationships. Roundtables give CEOs unique access to the information they need to grow their companies as well as foster their own professional development. &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ITA-CEONorthSubburbsRoundtableRecentActivity/~4/GrkkATQCqa0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><a10:updated>2010-09-10T15:37:35Z</a10:updated><feedburner:origLink>http://www.illinoistech.org/roundtable.aspx/11</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

