ATDBR Meeting: Leveraging the Creative Potential of IT

  • Thursday, June 25, 2015
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Mike Anderson's Seafood, 1031 W Lee Dr. Baton Rouge, LA
  • 31 registrants

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  • Members from other ATD Chapters.
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 Program Details

Organizational success in the 21st century depends upon a firm’s ability to compete within the knowledge, information, and innovation-based economies. With mass production and outsourcing ubiquitous throughout the business environment, finding a source of competitive advantage requires employees within firms to develop creative solutions for product development, customer management, and workflow processes within the organization. Therefore, creativity is vital in organizations today. However, despite the pressures upon firms today, the ability to identify creative individuals remains a pervasive problem. This problem is further exaggerated with the implementation of IT, which seeks to standardize workflow and organizational processes. In this talk, I will discuss how leveraging the creative potential of your employees in their utilization of IT will lead to an advantage to your firm and lead to greater levels of innovation for you.

Objective: This program will enable you to identify the characteristics of creative individuals with respect to IT and learn how creativity influences how your employees use the IT within your firm.
 Speaker Details

Andrew SchwartzAndrew Schwarz
Associate Professor
LSU 
E. J. Ourso College of Business
Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department

aschwarz@lsu.edu
Website

As an Associate Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University, Dr. Andrew Schwarz brings to his current position a unique blend of industry and academic qualifications. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., Andrew completed his undergraduate degree at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, where he majored in social psychology and minored in sociology. 

Following completion of his bachelor's degree, Andrew worked in the market research industry for technology clients such as SAP, Baan, and HP, as well as other Fortune 500 firms, including Kraft, Kellogg's, Ritz Carlton, Marriott, the Coca-Cola Company, and Energizer. As a professional within the market research industry, Andrew crafted research aimed at developing advertising campaigns for both new and established products and built models to forecast future trends in the credit card and food and beverage industries. In the past twelve years at LSU, Andrew has focused his teaching on the MBA program, helping students learn about the role of IT within organizations. As a researcher, Andrew has investigated research IT issues confronting all sizes of firms, including how to leverage IT investments for organizational gain, outsourcing, and how to encourage the adoption of new technologies within firms. 

As a result of these efforts, Andrew was recognized as one of the top 40 business people in Baton Rouge under 40 years old, is one of the top researchers in the field of IS within the world, and received a lifetime achievement award for contributions to his academic field.
                
 Competency Alignment

ATD Competency Model
ATD Baton Rouge strives to align our programming to the ATD Competency Model. This month's program aligns with the Learning Technologies area of expertise and the Technology Literacy foundational competencies.
                
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Meeting Schedule
 Check-in Begins
   11:30 AM
 Announcements Begin
   11:45 AM
 Program Begins
   12:00 PM

Pre-registration required.  No walk-ins.
 Cancellation Policy
As soon as you complete the registration process, you will be guaranteed a seat at this event. The completed registration process initiates an invoice from your ATD Baton Rouge Chapter to you that may be paid online, by mail, or on the day of the event.

Your ATD Baton Rouge Chapter may have to pay for your meal and other fees if you register and then cannot attend.  To help us protect your chapter’s finances, please submit cancellations at least 48 hours before the event.  Otherwise, we will have to invoice you to cover these costs.  If that should happen, we will be happy to receive your registration for future events as soon as you have settled your outstanding balance.   

What happens if I register and then cannot attend an event?  
If you cancel at least 48 hours in advance, you will not be charged.  If you already made payment, we will be happy to issue a refund to you.  If you cannot cancel before 48 hours, you are welcome to send a substitute in your place.  Just send an email to vphospitality@atdbatonrouge.org so that we can have materials prepared for that person.  This helps us ensure the person feels as welcomed as possible.

How do I cancel my registration? 
To cancel, please send an email to our VP of Hospitality at vphospitality@atdbatonrouge.org

Thank you for your cooperation with this policy.  Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
           Cancellation Policy
Pre-registration required.  No walk-ins.

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