IT (information technology) has recently entered the executive suite and producing astonishing results. IT helps senior management make decisions far better than ever before because it supplies information that is lucid, detailed and immediate. If you are overpowered rather than empowered -sign up today! This seminar will overview how IT can improve management decision making-including valuable tips for designing an organization and for successfully developing and launching new products. Applications covered include planning, gaining more customers, coordinating with suppliers, product development and more---crossing many departments. Solutions will be shown on example computer screen displays so you can see them yourself. A number of real business and decision problems will be used to exemplify how companies are presently using these concepts to improve profits and maintain market leadership. Attend and see how you can make the power of IT work more effectively for you now.

• Find out what a management "dashboard" or "cockpit" looks like and how it graphically and clearly displays the information that senior management needs for making critical and fast decisions.
• Learn the types of decisions that can be improved using these methods.
• See how real firms have used these concepts to gain customers, launch marketing campaigns, speed up product development, cut inventory costs, find business partners and more in today's fast-paced, changing market

Willard I. Zangwill, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago will present the seminar. Professor Zangwill has written four books, over 50 published articles in academic journals and three articles in the Wall Street Journal. He is a past departmental editor of Management Science and presently on the editorial board of Information Systems and e-Business Management.