Register Today

Business Program

Technology-Enabled Innovation | Technology in the Supply Chain | Productivity and Social Media | Strategic Vision

You’re invited to join BSA industry leaders as they celebrate 46 years of growing together as an industry and association!

Technology-Enabled Innovation: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

Sunday, April 29, 9:45 am - 11:15 am
Daniel Burrus, Founder and CEO of Burrus Research, Technology Forecaster, Business Strategist and Author

Technology is continually changing the rules of competition, rendering many traditional business strategies and processes obsolete. Emerging technologies provide opportunities for creating new, high margin products and services, as well as enable companies to gain new levels of speed, agility and cost savings. In addition, they allow us to decommoditize current products and services. Identifying and understanding the challenges and opportunities that new technologies create has become a key business imperative. In this eye-opening presentation, New York Times best selling author Daniel Burrus identifies specific technologies that will directly impact you and your industry. He will share how dematerialization, virtualization, advanced mobility, product intelligence, advanced
networking, interactivity, globalization and convergence can be used to drive innovation and
advantage as you develop new products, services and customer experiences.

His company monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients better understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.

Click here to learn more about Daniel Burrus. Click below to watch a video about Daniel Burrus.

(back to top)

 

Andy Andrews

Facing the Forces of Change: Wholesale Distribution Trends and Imperatives

Monday, April 30th, 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Guy Blissett, Wholesale Distribution Lead, IBM Corporation

As global lead for Wholesale Distribution at IBM, Guy researches critical issues, challenges, and opportunities in wholesale distribution, and brings focus to IBM's activities in the industry.  

In November 2010, Guy published Facing the Forces of Change®:  Decisive Actions for an Uncertain Economy, published by NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence, where Guy is a fellow. The book summarizes trends and issues in wholesale distribution such as information technology, services, analytics, and prioritizes imperatives for companies to consider.

Click here to learn more about Guy Blissett. Click on the image above to listen to a webinar presented by Guy Blissett.

(back to top)



Productivity and Social Media: The Good News and the Bad News

Monday, April 30th, 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Matthew Bookspan, Chief Shark @ Blacktip IT Services

Matthew Bookspan started Blacktip IT Services to help small businesses implement and use technology to move their operations forward. Blacktip IT Services are a Mac-based Managed Service Provider (MSP) and managed consulting firm dedicated to supporting small business by providing onsite, remote and help desk support; system administration; network administration; project management; tactical IT management; and CIO-level technical direction. Mr. Bookspan was particularly well received at the BSA’s 2011 Winter Meeting and is familiar with many of our industry companies.

Click here to learn more about Matthew Bookspan.

(back to top)

Strategic Vision: Mobility and Beyond

Monday, April 30th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Adolf Allesch, Global Lead Mobility Consulting Partner and Chief Innovation Architect with IBM Global Business Services

Adolf Allesch leads IBM's Global Business Services Innovation Practice, specializing in defining breakthrough solutions enabled by technology. In this global role, he is responsible for the service offering and solutions needed to create process innovation and advancing the lifecycle executive of IT investments.

Adolf has twenty-eight years of professional experience across numerous industries and consulting. He holds two BS Degrees in Engineering and an MBA, from Arizona State University and holds professional certifications from American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and American Society of Quality Control (ASQC).

 

Click on the image above to listen to the presentation given by Adolf Allesch at the SAP for Utilities conference.

(back to top)

BSA Update

Sunday, April 29, 8:15 am - 8:30 am

Bill Stevens, President and CEO of Motion Industries and BSA Past President will provide us an update on the bearing industry's growth from the distributor perspective including data from BSA's Annual Distributor Report Survey.

(back to top)

ABMA Update

Sunday, April 29, 8:30 am- 9:15 am

 

Pete Eich, President at NTN Bearing Corporation of America, Executive Officer for NTN Corporation, Osaka, Japan and incoming chair of ABMA, will present an update on growth in the bearing industry from the perspective of the American Bearing Manufacturers Association.

(back to top)