For more than 25 years, Jack has been a leader in assessing the impact of technology on business strategy. Jack began his fascination with the strategic opportunities associated with business process redesign years ago during his tenure as Treasury Systems Analyst for Swift Meats. Jack designed and implemented one of the first sophisticated telecommunications-based cash management systems for this $5 billion multinational food company - and added $5 million per year profit to the bottom line. He went on to positions with Martin Oil Service and MSA where his business and technology skills and interest expanded.

In 1985, Jack formed his own company, eCommerce Strategies. Through consulting and educational seminars, Jack has deepened his experience and, over the years, has brought his expertise to companies in numerous industries. In all, Jack has taken the platform in front of more than 1,000 audiences around the world.

In 1999, Jack wrote the book Surviving the Digital Jungle, which was revised and reprinted in 2000 and has sold nearly 10,000 copies to date. Jack is at work on his next book titled, The Autonomic Enterprise™: Toward Self-Managing Business Processes.

Jack has helped over 1,000 audiences of executives and professionals from business, government and the public sector in 20 countries to understand the impact of new technologies on their strategies and to assess how their organizations can best use new business tools and practices to improve performance and create competitive advantage. While Jack's expertise is gounded in a deep understanding of business technology, his presentations contain valuable information and insights for all audiences.

Programs
• Enterprise Risk Management : In this speech, Jack addresses not only traditional financial and credit risks, but also challenging operational and strategic risks arising from a host of external forces. Jack explains how businesses are implementing enterprise risk management (ERM), demonstrates some of the powerful tools companies are using to manage risk today, and shows why ERM is an important part of a company's future.

• Compliance and Information Management: It's NOT Just About Sarbanes-Oxley : Sarbanes-Oxley requires senior executives to keep their fingers on the pulse of their business. Compliance encompass far more than just S-O. In this program, Jack Shaw covers the seven critical aspects of compliance and information management and shows how organizations must structure their business processes and systems to meet compliance demands.

• Dynamic Business Process Management™ : Dynamic Business Process Management™ combines the best in current business practice with the most advanced business technologies to give your company unmatched strategic benefits and a clear competitive advantage in the marketplace. Jack has spent his career developing and applying the concepts and techniques of Dynamic Business Process Management, and he will show how your organization can gain its strategic benefits.

• Taking Cost Out of Your Supply Chain : Many individual business have gone as far as they can on their own to remove costs from the supply chain. In this session, Jack Shaw shows how the companies who comprise the most effective supply chains take additional costs out of their supply chains through collaborative supply chain event management.

• Reading Between the Lines of the Gadget Store Catalog : Jack Shaw will show you how to look at new technologies from a uniquely different perspective. How to "read between the lines of the Gadget Store catalog," if you will. The real key to this new high-tech world is not the gadgets themselves. Instead, it's the ways in which you use these exciting new tools to integrate people, processes, and information across the organization and between enterprises to cut costs, improve productivity, and gain strategic benefits.

• e-Business Collaboration : e-Business is about using technology to improve your bottom line. Collaboration is about relationships - teamwork, cooperation, partnerships, and alliances. Hear how e-Business Collaboration leverages powerful digital communications to bring together people, processes, and information across the organization and between enterprises to cut costs, improve productivity, and gain strategic benefits.

• Put Your Customers to Work! : Customer self-service is the key to customer satisfaction - and the key to customer loyalty and retention. Discover how to increase your productivity and cut your costs while keeping your customers happier - and longer!

• Forging a Stronger Supply Chain : Market leaders join their suppliers, distributors, and customers in a transparent web of information. Together, these supply chain partners get the right products to the right place at the right time for the lowest cost. Have Jack Shaw explain how to be a part of a winning supply chain.