Ivey, SAS launch executive speaker series devoted to driving transformational change

Super Crunchers author and Yale Professor Ian Ayres to kick off series

Toronto, ON  (25 June 2008)  –  SAS, the leader in business intelligence and predictive analytics, and the Richard Ivey School of Business, have teamed up to offer a seminar series – Enabling Transformational Change. The series will feature thought leaders discussing business strategies that leverage new technologies to help organizations effectively innovate and compete.

The series will provide Canadian executives with insights on how to address today’s pressing business challenges, including how to optimize business processes and maximize profitability and how to differentiate their organization from the competition.

“Information technology is a cornerstone of the modern organization. The companies that will thrive in any economic climate will be those that see the possibilities that information technologies provide and embrace those technologies to fuel organizational transformation,” said Carol Stephenson, Dean, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario. “Cross-enterprise leaders understand the importance of integrating information technology with other aspects of business in innovating and creating a growing and evolving enterprise.”

“Developing this series with the Richard Ivey School of Business further indicates that the value of business intelligence and analytics is being recognized at the executive level of organizations,” said Carl Farrell, Senior Vice President, SAS Americas and President, SAS Canada. “If a company in today’s economy isn’t using analytics to improve performance and the bottom line, now is the time to do so. This series will provide business leaders with access to thought leaders who have unique insights on driving change.”

The first seminar in the series, Harnessing Intelligence to Optimize Decision Making, features Yale Professor, Ian Ayres, the award-winning author of the influential new book Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart. The author of nine books and more than 100 articles on a variety of topics including economic and social justice, Ayres is a regular columnist for Forbes and the New York Times and his research has been featured in media including PrimeTime Live, Oprah, Good Morning America and in Time and Vogue magazines. A highly respected lawyer and economist, he is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School and a Professor at the Yale School of Management.

The event takes place Wednesday, June 25th at the Richard Ivey School of Business located at the ING Leadership Centre, Exchange Tower, Toronto, Ontario.

For more information, visit www.enabling-change.com.

About the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario
The Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario (www.ivey.ca) offers undergraduate (HBA) and graduate (MBA, Executive MBA and PhD) degree programs in addition to non-degree Executive Development programs. Ivey has campuses in London (Ontario), Toronto, and Hong Kong. Ivey recently redesigned its curriculum to focus on Cross-Enterprise Leadership – a holistic issues-based approach to management education that meets the demands of today’s complex global business world.

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