Tap into Manufacturing Industry Trends, Practices and Technology
Become a member of the Manufacturing, Distribution and Trade (MD&T) Special Interest Group (SIG). Gain access to how CIOs at different MD&T companies overcome manufacturing, trade, supply chain, distribution, logistical, productivity, technology and regulation challenges. Join a MD&T SIG in Chicago or Wisconsin (Milwaukee).
In an open and confidential environment, you will have the opportunity to network and trouble shoot business problems unique to MD&T CIOs with peers who have developed a high level of trust and who regularly encounters similar management and operations issues.
Existing members consist of an exclusive group of CIOs, CTOs and other senior-level IT executives who are eager to share experiences, projects, management challenges, and visions of future trends and issues in order to instruct, improve, enlighten and uplift one another.
Member Benefits
MD&T SIGs are periodic, member-led CIO executive roundtables that consist of 10-20 MD&T CIO executives. By joining a MD&T SIG, you will discover:
- Industry vision, thought leadership
- Insight from an unique network of success-oriented executives
- Ways to increase your organization’s manufacturing/distribution effectiveness
- Meetings that are conducive to sharing of strategic ideas and to openly discussing challenges
- Ways to gain the expected return from your IT investments
- An impartial industry-specific board of advisors
- How to improve inefficiencies in inventory or in other areas
- Better operations practices
- Access to the members-only website
- Free membership
Format
Currently there are two MD&T SIGs:
- Chicago – The meeting facilitator for the Chicago MD&T SIG is:
- Alberto Ruocco, Vice President – Manufacturing, Distribution & Trade, The Revere Group (Facilitator)
- Wisconsin (Milwaukee) – The Wisconsin MD&T SIG has two member co-chairs and one meeting facilitator.
- Dave Herrmann, Grande Cheese (Co-chair)
- John Warczak, HB Performance Systems (Co-chair)
- Ellen Suttner – The Revere Group (Facilitator)
Depending on the geographic location, the MD&T SIGs meet bi-monthly for either a two-hour session (8:00 AM – 10:00 AM) or a two and one-half hour session (8:00 AM – 10:30 AM) at a pre-designated host site. Meetings consist of peer review, open sharing and discussion of industry issues, profit opportunities and business building strategies. Past SIG discussion topics have included:
- PCI Compliance
- World Class Supply Chains
- Balancing information protection and employee access (from a legal perspective)
- Balancing the competing interests of intellectual property protection and employee access
- IT Strategic Sourcing
- IT Operations Globalization
- Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
- E-Discovery
- Global ERP/Systems Implementation and Support
- Global IT Infrastructure and Managing IT Vendor Relationships
Upcoming Meetings
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More Information
For information on upcoming meetings or to become a member, please contact Colleen Doyle at 312-873-3396.