Adaptive organisations need to absorb the impact of evolving technologies and the rapidly changing IT provider market; organisations must learn and apply key adaptive principles. They must also be able to sense and respond to change across the organisation.
Infrastructure, operations and business continuity, integration, development and Web services, risk, security, compliance and the like will come under the spotlight next month when META Group hosts METAmorphosis Africa 2004, The Adaptive Organisation: Building value by remodelling for IT flexibility, at Caesars Gauteng, from 4 to 6 May.
About 400 delegates from SA as well as delegates from as far a field as the UK, Switzerland, Zimbabwe and Sweden will attend the three-day conference to hear META Group analysts from the US, UK and Europe speak on international trends and best practice methods for the adaptive organisation.
Eric Cowling of META Group South Africa said he was particularly pleased to have had such enthusiastic support for the conference from South African businesses, including Compuware, T-Systems, SAP, Unisys, MTN, Micromuse and Microsoft, and to be using local business for accommodation and conference support.
"It`s great that we have places like Caesars, which will host the conference cocktail event and the on-site catering," Cowling said.
Jean-Louis Previdi, senior vice-president international from META Group, will deliver the keynote address, `The Adaptive Organisation Manifesto` covering why it is critical to be an adaptive organisation now, how to gain a road map to being adaptive and understanding how and why IT must get "its house in order" to drive the adaptive organisation.
METAmorphosis also offers attendees the chance to meet one-on-one with analysts through the intimate setting of breakout seminars, and a timely and topical research agenda geared toward senior IT and business executives. Breakout sessions were carefully chosen to best match the needs of attendees and help them get the most value out of the conference:
* Infrastructure
* Operations and business continuity
* Integration, development and Web services
* Outsourcing and professional services
* Risk, security, and compliance
* Enterprise applications and business performance
* Information management: content, collaboration and analytics
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