Tuesday, March 11 - Information Workflow Tracking and Illustrating Value

Don't miss this chance to see how three companies track their workflow and how they use their solutions to show their value, justify more staff or alter their service model.

March 11, Tuesday

Information Workflow Tracking and Illustrating Value

PricewaterhouseCoopers

300 Madison Avenue, corner of 42nd

-- 5:30 Reception - beer, wine, crudite and cheese (22nd floor, West Commons)

-- 6:30 Program (22nd floor, 22306-7)

Panel discussion and presentations:

-- Dr. Toby Pearlstein, (retired) Director, Global Information Services for Bain & Company will talk about the process of thinking through developing a solution for workflow management and demonstrating contribution and how Bain used the eRef service from SoftLink to track their global research workflow operations. Toby is a special guest coming in from Boston and an SLA member since 1977. Among her many positions, she is a past Chair of the Business and Finance Division and the Association Professional Development Committee. In June, she was admitted to the 2007 Class of SLA Fellows.

--Brian K. Reed, North American Research Manager for Oliver Wyman's FS business, will detail their homegrown solution and how they used it to make a case for increased staffing, increased resources and re-engineering their service model.

--Betty Croft, senior manager, Knowledge Services Organization's Third Party Content Management team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, will present the Knowledge Services Organization's solution from RightNow Technologies as a workflow tool for the research group.

Cost

FREE for all SLA NY members

$10 for student non-members, $35 for all other non-members. Payable by check to SLA NY Chapter or by Paypal (below)
NOTE: Please also RSVP to Vida with your member status.

RSVP

RSVP to Vida Cohen at cohen.v@att.net by Thursday, March 6.

Space is limited to 90 people, so please update Vida if you RSVP and find you can't make it. Attendees will receive confirmation from Vida.

Sponsor

Special thanks to PricewaterhouseCoopers for their continued support, generous sponsorship and use of their space.

Also generously sponsored by:

Mergent http://www.mergent.com
Mergent's databases span global equity fundamentals, equity pricing, corporate actions, and fixed income, each closely monitored to ensure the highest accuracy. The databases contain detailed financial information on over 35,000 U.S. public companies and non-U.S. public companies from over 100 countries, 20,000 U.S. municipal bond issuers, and extensive data on corporate bonds, dividends, corporate actions and unit investment trusts. Mergent products offer rich textual historical data in financial instruments dating back to the early 1900s.

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