[Editors] Oct. 17 -- IBM SVP Linda Sanford to Speak on "Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges"

[Lois Slavin]

Dear MIT Editors,

 

Kindly forward to students, faculty, colleagues. Hope you can attend as
well!

 

Thanks and best wishes,

Lois

 

MIT's Engineering Systems Division invites you to a lecture by Linda
Sanford, IBM's SVP of Enterprise On Demand Transformation and Information
Technology, who will speak on "Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World
Challenges." This event is co-sponsored by IBM and MIT's Engineering Systems
Division. 

A reception with refreshments will follow. 

 

Details:

 

Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006


Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM


Location: Building 34, Room 101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA  02139


Open to: Entire MIT Community -- please forward to students, colleagues,
staff.

This event is free of charge. 

 

Ms. Sanford leads the strategy for IBM's internal transformation to the
industry's premier on demand business. In this role, she is responsible for
working across IBM to transform core business processes, create an IT
infrastructure to support those processes, and help create a culture that
recognizes the value that on demand leadership can bring to IBM.

 

Previously Ms. Sanford was Senior Vice President & Group Executive, IBM
Storage Systems Group, where she helped take IBM from fifth place in storage
market share to second in two years. Prior to assuming that position, Ms.
Sanford headed IBM Global Industries, the organization that manages
relationships with IBM's largest customers worldwide and is responsible for
generating almost 70 percent of IBM's revenue.

 

One of the highest-ranking women at IBM, Ms. Sanford is a member of the
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame and the National Academy of
Engineering. She has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Women in
Business by Fortune Magazine, one of the Top Ten Innovators in the
Technology Industry by Information Week Magazine, and one of the Ten Most
Influential Women in Technology by Working Woman Magazine. 

 

Ms. Sanford is the chairman of The Business Council of New York State, Inc.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Partnership for New York City,
ITT Industries, St. John's University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


 

Ms. Sanford co-authored "Let Go To Grow: Escaping the Commodity Trap" a book
that details how successful companies are pursuing strategies to drive
long-term growth and innovation. The book was published by Prentice Hall in
December 2005.

 

A graduate of St. John's University, Ms. Sanford earned an M.S. in
Operations Research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

 

Additional information is available at
<BLOCKED::BLOCKED::http://esd.mit.edu/HeadLine/calendar/2006/101706sanford.h
tml> http://esd.mit.edu/HeadLine/calendar/2006/101706sanford.html

 

This event is part of the IBM-MIT/ESD Innovation Lecture Series. Each
session will demonstrate how today's leaders and practitioners are using
engineering systems and services sciences approaches to address complex
problems. Drawing from real-life examples, the series will explain how these
approaches were applied at IBM and other organizations, and demonstrate how
to achieve breakthrough solutions that deliver sustained value to
enterprises and society as a whole.The next event, which will feature senior
executives from the healthcare industry, is scheduled for December 14, 2006.
Details TBA.

 

Lois Slavin
Communications Director
MIT Engineering Systems Division
 
77 Massachusetts Avenue
E40-315
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
 
Tel.  617.253.0812
Fax: 617.253.1462
WWW:  <BLOCKED::http://esd.mit.edu/> http://esd.mit.edu
http://esd.mit.edu/Esd_Staff/Lois/lslavin.htm
 
 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/editors/attachments/20061013/efded9c4/attachment.htm