Special Lunch Session: The Forest Products Enterprise of the Future
Presented by Dirk Claessens, WW Industrial Products Industry Leader, IBM Global Business Services

The dominant theme in the Forest Products industry is how to deal with globalization and how individual companies can become more globally integrated in this environment. The globally integrated enterprise will require fundamentally different approaches to production, distribution, and work-force deployment. This is already happening. Because new technology and business models are allowing companies to treat their different functions and operations as component pieces, firms can pull those pieces apart and put them back together again in new combinations, based on strategic judgments about which operations the company wants to excel at and which it thinks are best suited to its partners.

This session will focus on an update of the forest and paper industry's global integration opportunities, with highlights of some striking findings from the recent IBM CEO Study, as well as a look at the requests IBM is getting from industry players and how these fit in the global context.

Space is limited for this session!
Email events@risiinfo.com to secure your place or RSVP during the online registration process. Lunch will be provided.