Executive roundtable and workshops
Executives from member companies gather to hear industry leaders, pioneers, and prominent researchers from academia. These speakers hold workshops dealing with relevant topics to the business community. These workshops may deal with first-hand corporate experiences with emerging information technologies, demonstrations of technologies or discussions of policy issues related to implementation of these technologies.
Past roundtables and workshops have included:
- best practices
- e-business
- security
- web integration strategies
- outsourcing
- systems funding
- integration
- Internet privacy
We have had the publisher of CIO magazine, Gary Beach, who facilitated a member discussion about the state of IT today, the legacy albatross, knowledge management and cutting costs among other interesting presenters.
Executive Education
Information technology experts from industry and academia address topical issues to our member firms in customized short courses. Information and skills for immediate use in participant companies are emphasized.
Past short courses have included:
- Why Projects Fail
- IT Maintenance, Repair and Operations – Systems Integration
- Leading Geeks, by the Paul Glenn, author of the book Leading Geeks.
CIO of the Year Award
Each year CITI presents its CIO of the Year Award to a Colorado CIO whose made significant contributions to their organization and the community. Previous winners have included Virginia Guthrie of Coors Brewing Company
Working Paper Series
CITI provides working papers and research reports for all its research activities, to all sponsoring companies on request. The working papers serve as a knowledge base for building a set of industry best practices related to information technology management, development and use.
