The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
October 28, 2008
12:00 pm US Eastern
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Deborah Smallwood, Co Founder, Smallwood Maike Associates (bio)Samir Gulati, VP of Marketing, Appian (bio)Sfiso Mthethwa, Senior Manager - Business Process Management, Insurance, SMART Business Advisory and Consulting (bio)
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Business Process Management software helps insurance organizations become more competitive, save time and money (especially on paper and storage needs), provide better customer service and adhere more easily to compliance requirements. Deb Smallwood will give an overview of the industry’s process pain-points, and BPM’s solution value. Samir Gulati will outline multiple insurance company case studies from Appian’s customer base. Sfiso Mthethwa will discuss SMART’s BPM-based solution for facultative re-insurance.
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Featured Speaker Bios:
Top insurance industry advisors Deborah Smallwood and Cindy Maike are ebizQ's Insurance Community Managers. Their focus is on transforming insurance companies into agile, business-driven enterprises where IT enables business value.
As Community Managers, Smallwood and Maike will blog and podcast to keep the ebizQ community fully informed on the latest news and breakthroughs relevant to insurance. They will also be responsible for publishing press releases, covering briefings, writing feature articles and sourcing content from other analysts, industry associations and vendors for publication on ebizQ. Finally, each week, they will compile the most important news and views in an e-mail newsletter for ebizQ's ever-growing insurance community.
Focusing on the needs and challenges of today's insurance world, Smallwood Maike & Associates, Inc is a strategic advisory firm that offers a unique blend of research, advisory and consulting services for both insurance companies and solution providers. By leveraging best practices from both the management consulting and research advisory disciplines, Smallwood Maike's service offerings are prime for companies eager and ready to embrace change and achieve their full business potential.
As co-founder of Smallwood Maike, Deborah Smallwood has held leadership roles with Liberty Mutual, KPMG LLP, and TowerGroup, where she consistently found new ways to leverage technology in achieving optimal business performance. Her skill set includes business strategy, the development of business and IT roadmaps, and the delivery of application software. Prior to Smallwood Maike, Deb served as Chief Transformation Officer (CIO) for a P&C, mid-tier regional carrier and was the Managing Director of the Insurance Practice at TowerGroup.
Co-founder Cindy Maike brings clients a wealth of insurance and financial services experience, grounded in the business but reaching deeply into the technology. Maike previously held a variety of leadership positions at IBM and ACORD, where she honed her skills in business architecture, development/standards, global software marketing, business strategy, management consulting, business architecture, and IT strategy. She has also been and continues to be an advocate and active participant in the development of insurance industry business architecture, process modeling, and information standards.
Samir Gulati, Vice President of Marketing Samir Gulati joined Appian in April 2007. Mr. Gulati previously served as Vice President of Global Marketing for Pegasystems, a publicly-traded BPM vendor, where he successfully re-positioned the company as the leader in the rules-driven Business Process Management market by executing an aggressive Brand Leadership program. Most recently, Mr. Gulati was Vice President of Marketing at Apptix, where he was responsible for positioning the company as a premiere provider of on-demand messaging and collaboration solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Previously, as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at SAGA Software, a spin-off from Software AG, Mr. Gulati was responsible for setting the strategic direction for SAGA. He also led the successful global launch of SAGA's new Enterprise Application Integration product suite -- a key infrastructure technology for enabling integrated eBusiness. Mr. Gulati holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering, and received his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA from the University of Chicago.
Sfiso Mthethwais a Senior Manager in the Business Process Management practice at SMART Business Advisory and Consulting. He has responsibility for the strategic direction and project delivery of BPM solutions for Insurance industry.
Sfiso leads SMART’s current development of BPM solutions for the insurance market. Through industry events and print media, Sfiso has been active in sharing SMART’s thought leadership in the area of insurance and reinsurance, and the key role BPM plays in that market.
Sfiso brings a solid understanding of information technology architecture and full life cycle application development. He has been an advocate in the appropriate use of Business Process Management, Business Rule technologies and other architectures in over 15 years of enterprise solutions delivery.
Sfiso received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science/Business Information Systems and Economics from University Of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
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