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Sabine Everaet: Happiness drives success

2012-02-24T08:25:55+00:00

During our ADM Foyer on 15 February, Sabine Everaet showed why Data News recently declared her CIO of the Year.

Constantly striving for a genuine and close collaboration between IT and the business is, for her, the key to success. Openness, collaboration, flexibility and trust play an important part here. In addition, IT – as an internal provider of the business – should not be afraid to use the same marketing techniques as the business uses for its own end customers.
Data News’ description of Sabine – having “boundless energy”, “passion” and “high standards” was clearly spot on: everyone in the packed hall listened attentively for an hour to her presentation.

The initiators of the new ADM track “nextGen” wanted to hear from Sabine how she – as a woman, wife and mother – looks back on her career so far. Her answer was very clear: hard work, go for it and, above all, be aware that “happiness leads to success” and not the other way around.

New ADM Partner – UnifiedPost

2012-02-17T14:24:41+00:00

We welcome UnifiedPost as a new ADM partner. Their CIO, Peter Bogaert, will represent UnifiedPost on the ADM Board.

UnifiedPost is a provider of solutions for document communication processes. They offer both paper and electronic solutions for handling accounts payable and receivable, payroll administration, contract management, legal e-archiving and other internal and external administrative communications.

Business–IT alignment anno 2020

2012-02-09T11:20:24+00:00

2/2/2012 In the unique setting of the Patershof Hotel in Mechelen (formerly a church), some 40-odd CxOs explored the question of how they envisage the collaboration between business and IT in 2020.

Prof. Dr. Ir. Hendrik Vanmaele, professor at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and at Ghent University, and CEO of MÖBIUS, gave in his introduction an overview of the challenges and trends that business and IT leaders will face in the coming years.

Kim Oostvogels, management consultant at MÖBIUS, introduced the concept of “Wereldcafé” (World Café) as a fun and especially very interactive way to brainstorm with a larger group*.
Afterwards small groups explored the question “How will collaboration work in 2020?” We saw animated discussions, and many minds maps and notes on the paper tablecloths...
The evening finished with a buffet dinner, with the discussions continuing... and we even heard a couple of suggestions about specific subjects to be added to the agenda of the next session. A successful evening, in terms of both form and content.

*World Café
The World Café is a series of discussions around a theme or issue. There are tables of four to five people and each one has a question (these may be the same or different) that is discussed in 20-minute sessions. The participants record their conversation on a “writeable” tablecloth in the form of a mind map, cartoon or some quotes. The conversation is stopped at a suitable moment. One participant then stays behind (the table host or hostess) and the other participants each look for a different table. Every conversation at the table begins with a review of the previous conversation, with people studying the notes on the tablecloths and the table host or hostess providing additional information. This allows the new group to go deeper into the issue. Afterwards there is a summary of all the conversations.
More information: http://www.desda.eu/e-zine/wereld-cafe.html

Twitter boot camp gets ADM members tweeting

2012-02-09T11:08:22+00:00

On 24 January ADM held its first social media boot camp, a small-scale hands-on training session in front of the computer.

For most of those present Twitter was a completely new or relatively new subject, so we started from scratch. Facebook was familiar to everyone, so the main focus was on creating a “fan page” for a company and on safety and privacy settings.

The day after we saw a couple of the participants taking their first steps (very successfully by the way) on the Twitter ice.

ADM members can download the hand-outs from this session (you just need to log in with your login and password).

ADM board member Martine Tempels, elected “ICT Woman of the Year”

2012-02-08T23:34:53+00:00

Martine Tempels, Sr. Vice-President Telenet for Business and Member of the ADM Board was elected “ICT Woman of the Year”.

After the readers of DataNews voted her in the top 3 shortlist, a professional jury elected Martine as the 2012 “ICT Woman of the Year” because of her professionalism, visibility in the market, networking skills and her efforts to attract youngsters and/or women in the ICT business. Martine succeeds Saskia Van Uffelen from Bull.

For the first time DataNews elected a “Young ICT Lady of the Year”, aimed at women under 30, who iin spite of their young age already have a proven track record and a professional view. Virtually all 60 candidates had very convincing dossiers, so the jury had a tough job selecting the top 3. In the end DataNews readers voted Microsoft’s Karlien Vanden Eynde to be the first “Young ICT Lady of the Year”.

If you know that the current “CIO of the Year” is Sabine Everaet from Coca Cola, we’re sure you will want to join us in congratulating three great women from the ADM network!

Immediately after the award ceremony, Eric Van Bael congratulated Martine on behalf of the ADM Board :

Resource Management - presentation and recap now available

2012-02-08T08:42:11+00:00

ADM members can now review the presentation and the key ideas from the discussion session on 31/1 on "Resource management" . In order to see the files you need to log in to the website.

During this session following topics were discussed

Do you always have the right people with adequate availability to staff your projects?
Does your organization succeed in finding the balance between day-to-day operations and getting ready for the future through ambitious projects?
Do you find ways to manage your scarce human resources effectively in spite of competing projects or project interdependencies?
What's the added value of advanced planning?

Why mobile matter’s and why it doesn’t

2012-01-25T14:47:20+00:00

Koen Pellegrims and Kenneth Stevens have shown us that there is a huge unlocked potential in this mobile paradigm shift.

With this ADM session they took us on a first flight through the world of mobile.
The room was packed and thrilled till the last minute and we were delighted to see a growing appetite for the workshops amongst the crowd.
Assured that this track will bring us everything we need to prepare your businesses and your employees for the mobile future, we look forward to what lies ahead.

The Hitchhiker’s guide to the social media galaxy

2011-12-14T10:01:21+00:00

Exploring the social media galaxy in 2 hours’ time: it was quite a challenge for Mic Adam and Frank De Graeve during our info session on 13 December.

Luckily they managed to keep it a very down-to-earth evening, explaining why social media are not to be neglected as part of a company’s communication strategy, what tools to use, how and why.

Their presentation is – of course – also available via Slideshare.

As to “applied” social media, here’s an overview where you can find ADM on social media :

ADM Twitter account: @admteam
Use this hashtag when you tweet about ADM: #admbe
ADM company page on LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/company/adm---where-business-and-ict-meet
ADM LinkedIn group : ADM: Where business and ICT meet ,
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=139412&trk=hb_side_g
ADM Youtube channel : www.youtube.com/user/ADMVideoChannel
ADM Slideshare www.slideshare.net/ADM-Slideshare
ADM fan page on Facebook will be launched in January

Nevertheless, do not hesitate to attend the ADM sessions in “real life”, or just call us for direct contact

Lessons learned about lessons learned

2011-12-08T22:22:27+00:00

During the first discussion session of the Project Management track, we wanted to check with the participants whether companies review “lessons learned” internally and if so, how they do it. Do they somehow record the conclusions on the approach of a project, when do they do it, how, and so on. In particular, do they look back at these things when starting a new project?

After a short real-life testimony from De Lijn and Electrabel (see the presentations on the extranet or in the member-only section), the discussions continued in the interactive form of “World Café”*, with the central question being: “How do you get added value from lessons learned?”
During the three conversational rounds (with the participants changing tables each time), people discussed, noted, drew pictures and, in particular, exchanged concrete information about their own experiences.

You can find the conclusions of these interesting discussions in the document “Lessons learned about lessons learned”.

*World Café in a nutshell

The World Café is a series of conversations around a theme or issue. Each table of four to five people has its own question (which may be the same or different each time) and this is discussed in 20-minute conversational rounds. The participants write down their conversation on a “writeable” tablecloth as a spider diagram, a cartoon or in a number of quotes. The conversation is stopped at a suitable moment. One participant stays behind (the table host or hostess) and the other participants each look for a different table. Every conversation at the table begins with a review of the previous conversation, which is based on studying the notes on the tablecloth and additional information from the table host or hostess. This allows the new group to go deeper into the issue in their own conversation. At the end, you make a summary of all the conversations.

More information at http://www.desda.eu/e-zine/wereld-cafe.html (in Dutch)

First ADM Twunch great experience

2011-12-07T19:40:33+00:00

The first ADM Twunch on 7 December turned out to be a hit. ..

11 people turned up for the first ADM Twunch at the Beansbar in Mechelen (great service by the way ). For a few this was their very first Twunch experience, others were experienced "twunchers". New acquaintances were made, information exchanged, new plans made. We concluded the lunch session with the decision to start a tradition of ADM twunches (no, not every week as one of the participants suggested ), next one somewhere end January/beginning February. Keep an eye on the ADM website or follow @twunch on Twitter.