The Next Generation Executive

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The Next Generation Executive
The Next Generation Executive

• Innovative, Strategic, e-business savvy

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background

• Executive Search identifying, attracting,
  selecting, negotiating, on behalf of our client -
  for people who are the best, outstanding in their
  field, hard to find, leaders, reluctant to
  respond to ads, ultimately the right cultural fit
  for the client organisation
• Roles 50 corporate, 50 academic
• Corporate General managers, directors, IT
  leadership (CIO, CTO, Program Managers), Supply
  chain experts, Marketing and Business development
  professionals, CMOs, Government execs
• Academic Directors, Heads of School, Chairs,
  specialist appmts
• The needs of decision-makers in Industry and
  Government today in relation to e-commerce,
  e-business expertise

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corporate viewpoints

• E-Business for us is mainstream now, we have
  integrated our e-business Hit Teams back into
  the business, and from here try to educate our
  business unit managers on the possibilities
  major multinational insurance company
• We do not have enough people in our division who
  understand what our business objectives are, let
  alone what are business processes should bethis
  influences our decisions in relation to choice of
  enterprise applications, customer service
  delivery, how we support the core business of the
  bank.......GM Enterprise Technology, Big 4 bank
• There is a major gap in terms of Technology and
  E-Business Savvy Directors on the Boards of major
  Australian companies.one of the few women
  Professional Directors in Australia

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factors influencing executive roles
opportunities

• Deep changes to key concepts such as space, time,
  commerce, morality, self and spirit (the Web is
  accelerating this)
• Computer and human interface
• More information, more channels for delivery,
  faster
• Demand for more rapid decision-making
• Collaborative co-opetition
• Global roles / language advantage
• Broad range of capabilities (2-2.5 yrs / role)
• E-Business savvy

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trends technologies

• Internet and e-commerce pervasive globally /
  personalisation
• Convergence technology - for telecommunications,
  health care and pharmaceutical, financial
  services, insurance, banking, oil and gas,
  entertainment and energy
• Wireless
• e-CRM
• Content management
• Security
• Voice services
• Business-IT integration
• Improved User Interface / ease of info access

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Top 10 E-Commerce / Web services / IT challenges

• Security
• Building an adequate infrastructure
• Data access
• Back-end systems integration
• Bandwidth
• Network connectivity
• Uptime
• Data mining/data warehousing
• Systems that don't scale
• People - with business and IT experience

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next generation leaders

• Knowledge and Innovation (driving growth
  opportunities, salaries and living standards)
• Leading through a continuum of change
• Just in time learning / training
• Ethical leadership (Corporate governance)
• Strategic Thinkers
• Technology savviness
• Importance of Mentorship and networking
• Community aware
• EQ
• Values Integrity
• Glass Ceiling?
• Balancing Career and Family

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growth sectors

• ICT
• Organising and streamlining information, business
  / IT interface
• New media
• Artistic side of information technology
• Healthcare
• By 2010, 8 out of 10 vacancies will be hcare
• Environment
• Marketing, communications, product design,
  recycling, and pollution prevention
• Personal services
• One-stop shopping for financial services such as
  investment advice, insurance and estate planning
• Wellness, design, personal guides

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• A lot of our clients are e-commerce executives
  in major corporations, said Tom Pullman, a
  senior analyst at Forrester Research. Up until
  the fourth quarter of last year, they were given
  a lot of rope. Now with the downturn, traditional
  line managers and business unit CEOs are
  scrutinising e-commerce executives much more
  closely and holding them accountable to hard
  internal investment metrics.
• There are personality traits that are
  important, like the ability to work extremely
  independently and to navigate competing
  technologies, Yankee Group senior analyst Eric
  Ogren.
• As software flaws, wireless network holes and
  data thieves continue to make companies
  vulnerable to technological bad guys, a growing
  need for security experts has driven more IT
  workers toward this constantly changing field
  www.zdnet.com.au
• ..companies are now placing a premium in
  e-business experience when they select senior
  managers to head Internet-based business
  programs. Most
  -two-thirds- have business management, as opposed
  to technical,
  backgrounds Interactive Week

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executive roles

• Director Shared Services
• Director of Customer Care
• Head of Web Services
• Supply Chain management
• Senior Business Program Managers
  

• C Level (incl. COO, CIO, CSO)
• Manager People
• Organisational Development
• Corporate Development
• Privacy Officer/Counsel
• Business /IT Relationship Manager
• Communications Convergence Mgr
• Computer Security - Ethical Hacking
• Others
• Business (/IT) Analysts
• Internal Business Unit relationship Managers
• Superior Project Managers

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future trends (BTexact Technologies)

• Wireless internet available anywhere in the world
• 1 Billion internet users
• 95 of people in advanced nations are computer
  literate
• Video phones become standard in homes and
  personal communication
• Virtual reality used to teach science, geography,
  art and history
• Domestic Appliances with remote networked
  intelligence, you can start your stove or
  microwave while you are at work.
• A kitchen food tester that identifiesthe
  presence of food poisoning in bacteria
• Artificial kidneys and lungs
• Court for minor traffic offences held on the
  internet
• Intelligent robotic pets
• House robots to cook, clean, and wash
• http//www.btexact.com/docimages/42270/42270.pdf