Rethink Your Information Strategy

Information Builders, in association with InformationWeek at select events, invites you to rethink your information strategy at seminars devoted to providing strategic guidance on data governance and business intelligence.

Following the strategy session you'll have a rare opportunity to meet with your peers and speak with our customers at a relaxed networking reception.

Don't miss our Skyline Strategy Seminars if:

• You know data is your company's best asset, but don't know how to maximize its potential
• You're ready to boost business performance with a strategic approach to data governance and business intelligence
• You want to use your organization's data to mitigate risk, improve efficiencies, and work better with partners
• You recognize that everyone in your business could make smarter decisions

We'll show you how to:

• Employ data governance to eliminate the costs associated with poor data quality and use of information
• Enhance decision-making by using business analytics to provide historical, real-time, and future perspectives
• Transform your business into a metrics-driven organization

How well do your customers perform for you?

While we all serve our customers, we also need them to provide revenue, loyalty, and positive word-of mouth. To attract and keep these ideal customers we need to better understand what they want and give them an experience that keeps them coming back.

Information Builders is bringing together some of the industry's leading thinkers to share their insight on maximizing customer relationships.

Join us for our Customer Acquisition and Retention expert series and learn how accurate business intelligence analytics can help you strategically manage customer performance.

Featured Speakers

Jim Dickie

Managing Partner, CSO Insights
Jim Dickie's research firm, CSO Insights, specializes in benchmarking how companies are leveraging people, processes, and technology to optimize the way they market to, sell to, and service customers. He has more than 29 years of sales and marketing management experience and is a contributing editor for CRM magazine, the "CRM Guru" blog, SoftwareMag.com, and the Harvard Business Review; he is also the author of "The Chief Sales Officers Guide to CRM," "Insights into High Tech Sales and Marketing," and the co-author of "The Sales & Marketing Excellence Challenge" and "The Information Technology Challenge."

• September 15, Dallas
• September 22, Atlanta
• November 1, Denver

Sheryl Kingstone

Director of Enterprise Research, Yankee Group
Sheryl Kingstone has expertise in customer-centric strategies that help businesses improve sales effectiveness, customer loyalty, and acquisition. Specifically, she helps enterprise clients make decisions regarding the use of technology, business processes, and information to boost sales and optimize top-line business performance. With more than 18 years in the high-technology market, she has extensive speaking experience, is quoted in many business and industry journals, and provides notable consulting experience with Fortune 1000 companies.

• August 9, Detroit
• September 20, Toronto
• September 21, Montreal
• October 5, Edmonton

Don Peppers

Founding Partner, Peppers & Rogers Group
Don Peppers has been recognized for well over a decade as one of the leading authorities on customer-focused relationship management strategies. His vision, perspective, and thoughtful analysis of global business practices has earned him some significant citations by internationally recognized entities. Business 2.0 magazine named him one of the 19 foremost business gurus of our times, and Accenture's Institute for Strategic Change listed him as one of the 50 most important living business thinkers in the world. The Times of London has listed him among its Top 50 Business Brains, and the U.K.'s Chartered Institute for Marketing included him in its inaugural listing of the 50 most influential thinkers in marketing and business today.

• September 14, New York
• November 2, San Francisco

Martha Rogers

Founding Partner, Peppers & Rogers Group
Martha Rogers has been recognized for well over a decade as one of the leading authorities on customer-focused relationship management strategies. Business 2.0 magazine named her one of the 19 most important business gurus of the past century. The World Technology Network cited her as an innovator most likely to create visionary ripple effects. In 2008, the Direct Marketing Association asked Rogers to serve as Honorary Governor, noting that her contributions to the direct marketing business and her name symbolize ECHO excellence.

• September 20, Boston
• September 21, Minneapolis