SAS® Global Forum Executive Conference 2008
Successfully Navigating "The World as It Will Be"
Making Business Transformation a Sustainable Strategy
Speakers
Geoffrey Moore
Managing Director, TCG Advisors
Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
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| Geoffrey Moore |
Best-selling author Geoffrey Moore is recognized as a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges.
In his role as Managing director of TCG Advisors, Moore works with established enterprises, dividing his time between consulting on strategy and transformation challenges with senior executives and developing mental models to support the practice. With this focus in mind, he wrote Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution.
Moore is also recognized for his expertise in market development and business and investment strategies. As a venture partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, he serves as an advisor to many of its portfolio companies by drawing upon best practices derived from his extensive background working with technology startups.
Moore has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game and Living on the Fault Line are best-sellers and required reading at leading business schools.
Highly regarded as a dynamic public speaker, Moore holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Stanford University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Washington.
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| Jim Goodnight |
Jim Goodnight has been at SAS’ helm since the company's incorporation in 1976, overseeing an unbroken chain of revenue growth – a feat almost unheard of in the software industry.
Goodnight holds a doctorate in statistics from North Carolina State University, where he was a faculty member from 1972 to 1976. SAS® software was originally created by Goodnight and NCSU colleagues to analyze agricultural research data. Three decades later, it is accomplishing things Goodnight never imagined in his days as a doctoral student in statistics.
Today, SAS is best known for sifting massive mountains of data for FORTUNE 500® companies and other organizations most people have heard of. Insurance companies use SAS to flag fraudulent claims. Retailers use SAS to find profitable places to put stores and products within those stores. More and more financial institutions use SAS to detect money laundering, as mandated by the USA PATRIOT Act and the Basel II accord. They also use it to sniff out fraud and to score credit applications.
With its unique business model (software licensed annually) and solid reputation for innovation (24 percent of 2006 revenues reinvested in R&D), SAS is the world's largest privately owned software company. SAS is also renowned for its corporate culture, which has made it a fixture on "Best Places to Work" lists (including FORTUNE's.)
In 2004, Harvard Business School named Goodnight one of the "20th Century's Great American Business Leaders" for his three decades of leading a business that has changed the way Americans have lived, worked and interacted in the 20th century
Jim Davis
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
SAS
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| Jim Davis |
Davis helped lead the transformation of SAS from a tools vendor to the software solutions provider it is today. He has done so by building industry-specific expertise into SAS' product management and product marketing teams, which research the marketplace and partner with R&D to hone customized solutions for each industry. He has overseen a dramatic increase in SAS' profile.
Also known for his industry leadership, Davis has helped develop the Information Evolution Model, a means for companies to assess how effectively they use information to build their business. He also co-authored the book Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow Your Business, which outlines how companies manage and use information as an asset.
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