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17 June 2004
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Industry Experts Explore Crucial Organizational Change Issues at Intergraph Process, Power & Marine APEX Summit 2004
Industry experts explore how an organization's ability to introduce change is crucial to business success, Sept. 13 at the APEX Summit 2004 conference (http://www.apexsummit.com/ ), the Process, Power & Marine division of Intergraph Corporation announced today. Work force consultant Roger Herman leads the roundtable, which features Glenn Gilkey of Fluor Corp., Bernhard Weber of Procter & Gamble and Ben Eazzetta of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine. The roundtable centers on how change affects-and is in turn affected by-an organization's people, work processes and technology. Topics encompass strategies for successfully implementing organizational change, including communicating the business reasons for change, planning the implementation and execution of change and gaining executive and employee buy-in. Gilkey, Weber and Eazzetta offer the practical benefit of their experiences in managing organizational change. Click to http://www.apexsummit.com/registration.asp to register for APEX Summit, Sept. 12-15, at The Woodlands, Houston, Texas, USA.
Work force expert, author and consultant Roger Herman leads the roundtable, open to all APEX Summit and Executive Forum participants. Herman is the founder and chief executive officer of The Herman Group, a consulting firm focusing on work force and workplace trends, employee retention and work force stability. Since 1980, he has published 11 books, including Keeping Good People, and 1,000 magazine articles. Herman also has given 2,500 speeches and training seminars.
Glenn Gilkey, vice president of Project Execution Services at Fluor, offers insights from his 20-plus years at one of the world's largest engineering, procurement and construction companies. He has served in numerous management roles at Fluor, participating in many organizational change initiatives.
Bernhard Weber, associate director of Baby Care Process & Engineering for Procter & Gamble, highlights the benefits of his own experience in managing organizational changes. He recently was part of a major change effort that included merging parts of R&D and engineering to create his current organization.
Ben Eazzetta, the chief operating officer and executive vice president of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, explores how technology prompts and impacts change. He also brings to the roundtable 12 years of management and engineering organization experience with Exxon.
Intergraph and the Process & Power Client Community sponsor APEX Summit. APEX Summit is aimed at helping Intergraph clients entrench engineering information and intelligent software as an indispensable part of decision-making, retool work processes to boost profitability and productivity and develop new business models to compete in dynamic, demanding global markets.
Providing in-depth business content as well as practical value, the conference includes an Executive Forum and Business and Technology Tracks featuring industry and business luminaries, Process & Power Client Community activities, workshops, special events and a technology showcase.
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