| Topic:
Enhancing Transparency within Allstate Technology
Date:
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Registration is now closed.
Location:
Chevy Chase Country Club
1000 North Milwaukee Avenue
Wheeling, IL 60090-1899
(847) 465-2305
Driving directions.
Speakers: Yvette Graham, Systems Director, Allstate Insurance Company
and Mark Kibby, Senior Manager, Allstate Insurance Company Agenda
6:00 Registration
and Networking
6:30 Announcements
6:45 Dinner
7:45 Raffle
8:00 Presentation
9:00 Close
Presentation Abstract:
Allstate Insurance Company is using portfolio management tools to develop a comprehensive view of its technology portfolio. As part of this effort Allstate is developing common processes across its technology organizations to create the foundation for future strengthening of IT governance and portfolio management processes. These new processes will provide a single repository and source of IT project management artifacts and data and enable a consolidated dashboard that shows the availability of technology services, status of programs and projects -- both to technology partners and leadership. The overall effort, known as Enterprise Portfolio Management, bridges many processes, toolsets, and current initiatives to allow for optimal decision-making, which affects the technology portfolio. Ultimately, this combination will provide Allstate IT leaders with better access to and understanding of their entire portfolio, improving their ability to make strategic portfolio planning decisions and articulate them to internal and external clients. This presentation will review the journey of how Allstate arrived at the decision to tackle this subject, the vision of where it's headed, lessons learned to date and critical success factors.
About the Speakers:
Yvette Graham is a director with Allstate Insurance Company. She has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology at Allstate, where she started as an instructor teaching Assembler, PL/I and JCL, and moved to programming, testing, management, consulting and a wide variety of leadership roles. Yvette has experience in managing large, complex enterprise initiatives, as well as managing human resource and payroll systems. Her current responsibilities include the design and development of a portfolio management process for Allstate's technology organizations, which span five business areas, as well as the implementation of a technology tool to enable this process.
Mark Kibby is a senior manager with Allstate Insurance Company. Mark's expertise is in IT operations improvement and program management specifically in managing large, complex enterprise resource planning projects. He also has extensive experience in IT service management, vendor integration and management, software selection, business case development, and profit improvement. Prior to joining Allstate in 2004, he was a consultant at DiamondCluster International, where he spent two years working on Allstate initiatives. Those initiatives included development of an IT strategy project management office in which he served in the lead role, participation in an organizational launch of a technology services group, and several roll-outs of large, enterprise-wide projects. Currently, Mark manages the Program Management Office within Allstate's Enterprise Technology Strategy and Planning organization.
Registration:
Register at www.pmi-chicagoland.org. Please note that all registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-ins will be accepted the day of the event. Registration ends SUNDAY , Dec 11th at 7:00PM .
Contact the Director of Programs at programs@pmi-chicagoland.org if you have any further questions or concerns regarding this event.
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