Jim Bramante
Jim Bramante
Managing Partner, IBM Global Business Services (GBS), Americas.
Mr. Bramante is responsible for strategic direction, client relationships and operational management of the geography's multi-billion dollar business, including approximately 30,000 partners and consultants throughout the United States, Canada and Latin America. Mr. Bramante serves on IBM Chairman's Performance Team and Innovation and Values Team.
Bramante was formerly the Global Distribution Sector Leader within IBM Services organization that serves clients in the Retail, Consumer Products, Life Sciences/Pharmaceuticals, and Travel & Transportation industries. This was preceeded by leading the Global Financial Management practice which focuses on transforming organizations' finance functions.
He has more than twenty five years of industry and consulting experience working with leading companies around the globe.
Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Bramante was the CFO of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (PwC) in the Americas and a member of the organization's Executive Committee. In this role, he led a major global restructuring and was a key member of the team that led the spin-off of the firm's consulting division. As a PwC partner, he led a number of practice groups.
Mr. Bramante co-authored the book eCFO - Sustaining Value in the New Corporation. He is a member of the Board of Editors for the Journal of Cost Management and is a frequent speaker on the topics of Globalization, Finance Transformation, and Performance Measurement.
"The Enterprise of the Future: Trends and Analysis for Implementing Successful Business Strategies"
Leaders today must be innovative if they are to keep up with an ever more global, complex and dynamic environment. In IBM's Global CEO Study 2008, "Enterprise of the Future", 1,000 business and public sector leaders worldwide were interviewed in order to understand their perspective on strategic issues such as new customer groups, global integration and business model innovation.
In this session attendees will learn:
- How do organizations plan to compete in the face of globalization and increased global competition?
- What are the various factors that enable corporations to enter new locations/markets and how do they address the emergence of new global competitors?
- What impact will the increasingly acquisitive urban middle class in rapidly developing economies (RDEs) have on the enterprise?
- How do organizations meet the increasing demands of a better informed and more collaborative consumer, as well one that expects increased social responsibility
- How do companies/organizations use business model innovation to respond to the changes occurring across the value chain?