Web Seminars
Friday 13th - Avoiding Project Nightmares
Original Broadcast Date: Friday, May 13, 2011
Time: 12:00 pm ET | 9:00 am PT
Cost: Free
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Do you have a project that is keeping you up at night? Are you waking up in the night with COLD SWEATS? Having NIGHTMARES?
If so join our industry experts on FRIDAY 13th of May to find out how to diagnose and fix those bad-dream projects.
Insurance carriers are spending millions of dollars to replace aging core legacy systems in order to remain competitive. Although carriers and vendors are getting better at project execution many of these mission-critical projects will sub-optimize or fail. One way to reduce the risk of failure is to initiate a periodic, formal Project Health Check process to measure the vital signs of your project and assess the likelihood of success. On this web seminar you will hear from industry leading consultants and carrier staff about how, when and what to measure in order to avoid Project Nightmares and keep you company on track for success.
Featured Speakers:
George Grieve
CEO and Founder
CastleBay Consulting
George Grieve is the CEO and founder of CastleBay Consulting, a leading insurance consulting and services provider. Prior to founding the company, George was a consulting principal with IBM’s Insurance Solutions Unit, specializing in large-scale business and systems integration projects for leading U.S. and Canadian insurers. He is a regular contributor to Tech Decisions magazine, writing the bi-monthly column Shop Talk.
James Carhart
CIO
Utica National Insurance Group
James Carhart currently is Senior Information/Services Officer, a position he has held since 2002. He was Vice President prior to this promotion. Since joining the company in 1980, James has held increasingly responsible positions within the Information Technology department, including Systems Supervisor, Operations Supervisor, and Operations Manager. James was named an officer of the company, as Assistant Secretary, in 1995 and was elected Assistant Vice President in 1999, Vice President in 2002 and Senior Vice President in 2007. A graduate of SUNY at Plattsburgh with a bachelor's degree in economics, he holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation along with seven other professional designations from programs of study in insurance and information technology. He is co-founder and former chairman of the CPCU Society's Information Technology Section, as well as past president of the Society's Utica Chapter. A former member of the Alliance of American Insurers' e-commerce committee, James has served as an instructor for the Insurance Institute of America's Associate in Automation Management program.
Moderated by:
Bob Hyle
Editor-in-Chief
Tech Decisions
