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When: June 26, 2008, 12:00 PM Eastern
Event: A Webinar: The Best Model to Collaborate on a Wiki Book: Evolution or Intelligent Design?
Presenters: Mark Finnern, Collaboration Manager, SAP; Dan Woods, CTO and Editor, Evolved Media
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You may have heard about the recently released book, In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant, published by Evolved Technologist Press. For those interested in this topic, here's a webinar you may want to attend.

When: June 26, 2008, 1:00 PM Eastern
Event: Creating the Perfect Plant for Medical Device Manufacturers
Presenters: Hussain Mooraj, Research Director, AMR Research
Jim Sabogal, Vice President, Industry Business Unit Life Sciences, SAP

The business process expert, or BPX, is an emerging role that is changing the dynamics in numerous companies.

This book, with a current working title of Sophisticated Empathy: Understanding and Implementing the BPX Role to Compose Better IT and Business Solutions, not only harvests wisdom about who BPXers are and what they can do to help companies move forward and increase internal communications. The project also represents an effort by business process experts for business process experts.

The Education of a CTO brings to the table something that doesn't currently exist: a way to mentor CTOs and help them effectively do their jobs. Dan Woods tells this story based on his own experience as a CTO at TheStreet.com and other companies.

Dan saw the problems that CTOs cause themselves, the problems that they face in their companies, and the fact that their jobs are ill-defined. At most companies, no mentors are on hand to train the CTO.

So, faced with daunting management challenges and methodologies insufficient to solve the problem, what is the way out? If CTO performance has been sub par, what must be done to restore the CTO to hero status?

The program presented in this book is threefold:

• First, the CTO must more fully understand his own personality – the raw technology persona
• Next, the CTO must shift his focus from technology to business value.
• Finally, the CTO must learn about more about each business specialty in order to effectively construct technology solutions.

Evolved Technologist seeks to gather and publish wisdom from technology professionals about how to succeed when putting technology to work. The creators of Evolved Technologist are on a journey to reinvent the methods used in journalism, analysis firms, and other media to serve the needs of technologists. There is no doubt this journey will take us to many unexpected places. Our starting point is a simple agenda and the following set of principles.

So much content is created about technology without any explanation of who is going to use a system or why it is being used at all. One of the fundamental principles of the Evolved Technologist is that a complete explanation of the context in which technology is going to be applied is crucial to a clear analysis of technology issues.