ABSTRACT: This presentation, in support of the library planning process at UC Berkeley, will propose important directions in academic library values, roles and visions, and advance thirty imperatives guiding the future direction and priorities for library investment.

James Neal is the Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University in New York City, providing leadership for university academic computing and a system of 25 libraries. In this position, he has oversight for the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, the Copyright Advisory Office, and the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research. Jim Neal is a frequent speaker and author with a focus in the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library programs, organizational change, and human resource development.

For further information:
www.columbia.edu/~jneal/
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/

Duration : 1:25:50

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The skills, knowledge and expertise of workers determine organizations’ competitive advantage. Every organization is challenged by the pace of change, technological advances, shortening product life-cycles, and changing customer expectations. Human resources can make the difference among organizations with the same access to equipment, technology and facilities.
The HRD certification system is a straightforward, proven framework for delivering business improvement through people. It offers organizations a systematic process to review their human resources practices, develop staff and improve training effectiveness.

Investors in People Standard (Investors in people UK) is the scheme of the UK and the People Developer is Singapore’s quality standard for human resource development. Best HRD (Best Human Resources Developers) is a new attempt being made by Korea to advance its people’s knowledge, skills, attitude, and creativity toward the enhancement of organizations’ capability.

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There are hopeful signs that other organizations are joining the fight to help improve the chances for young black Americans to succeed, and thus have a greater opportunity to become successful in their college and percolate careers.
One such organization is INROADS, a leadership and career training program in Nashville. INROADS has 141 talented minority college students working in partnership with 49 local companies. Interns in the program gain a head start in the business world by being placed in the same company for four summers and participating in rigorous weekend training sessions. In many instances the sponsoring company will hire the student after graduation. INROADS/Nashville, the local affiliate began in 1978 with twenty corporate sponsors. The organization placed 20 of its 21 graduates this past fiscal year.
While historical black institutions and such organizations as INROADS are not the complete solution for black entrance into the teaching and business professions, they do represent examples of what can be done with what has correctly been described as a problem which has impacted the entire country

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When you look around, there are a lot of leaders recommended for software development. We have the functional manager and the project manager, the scrum master and the black belt, the product owner and the customer-on-site, the technical leader and the architect, the product manager and the chief engineer.

Clearly that’s too many leaders. So how many leaders should there be, what should they do, what shouldn’t they do, and what skills do they need?

This will be a presentation and discussion of leadership roles in software development — what works, what doesn’t and why.

Speaker: Mary Poppendieck
Mary Poppendieck started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development, where she was both a product champion and department manager.

Mary considered retirement 1998, but instead found herself managing a government software project where she first encountered the word “waterfall.” When Mary compared her experience in successful software and product development to the prevailing opinions about how to manage software projects, she decided the time had come for a new paradigm. She wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003 to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development.

Over the past six years, Mary has found retirement elusive as she lectures and teaches classes with her husband Tom. Based on their on-going learning, they wrote a second book, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash in 2006. A popular writer and speaker, Mary continues to bring fresh perspectives to the world of software development.

Speaker: Tom Poppendieck
Tom Poppendieck has 25 years of experience in computing including eight years of work with object technology. His modeling and mentoring skills are rooted in his experience as a physics professor. His early work was in IT infrastructure, product development, and manufacturing support, and evolved to consulting project assignments in healthcare, logistics, mortgage banking, and travel services.

Tom led the development of a world-class product data management practice for a major commercial avionics manufacturer that reduced design to production transition efforts from 6 months to 6 weeks. He also led the technical architecture team for very large national and international Baan and SAP implementations.

Tom Poppendieck is an enterprise analyst and architect, and an agile process mentor. He focuses on identifying real business value and enabling product teams to realize that value. Tom specializes in understanding customer processes and in effective collaboration of customer, development and support specialists to maximize development efficiency, system flexibility, and business value.

Tom is co-author of the book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, published in 2003, and its sequel, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, published in 2006.

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The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals.

The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various…

Duration : 0:45:2

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*Speaker:
-Dick Kleinert, Principal, Deloitte
-Kent Lockhart, Director, Executive Development, The Walt Disney Company
-Young-Soon Kim, CEO, Credu

*Description:
New business and work force challenges are making HR and people issues more visible and important than ever. People-related challenges not technology, processes or strategy are often the most significant barriers to effective organizational transformation. This session will discuss global trends in structural transformation, related people and organizational challenges and some practical, proactive solutions to enhance organizational performance. Specific topics will include: Current global marketplace pressures (e.g., globalization, talent trends, increasing consumer power, and changing regulatory pressures), Related organizational transformation strategies (e.g., outsourcing, M&A, shared services), Associated human capital challenges and Pragmatic approaches to solving select challenges.

Duration : 1:33:21

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Bacou-Dalloz is a global group which provides a critical resource to industries of all shapes and sizes: personal protective equipment, where it is a world leader. Organized around three core businesses-head protection, fall protection and body protection-major industrial processes, and many lives, depend upon Bacou-Dalloz. Mr. Petit kicks-off our series with thoughts on what it means to lead a global industrial company.

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Greg Gillis and Lesly Higgins, experienced corporate coaches, will discuss and demonstrate various methods to effectively communicate; whether it is delivering a yearly review to a fellow Googler, developing your group’s strategic vision, or influencing others towards an idea. By learning about Advocacy and Inquiry, Appreciate Inquiry, and Effective Feedback/Feedforward, you will come away from this workshop with concrete examples and experiences to help you get your message across with impact.

Speaker: Lesly Higgins
I’ve been coaching since 1999. After my first career in software development, with roles that included VP Software Engineering at Commerce One and VP Information Technology at Charles Schwab, I returned to school to complete an MS in Organizational Behavior and Development and also a comprehensive coaching program. I’ve coached at all levels in organizations, most functions, and with both early stage and Fortune 500 companies. Most of my clients are in the tech space, and they include: Agile Software, America Online, Apple Computer, Autodesk, Charles Schwab, Coremetrics, CNET, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Peoplesoft, Pixar, SAP, Shutterfly, Taleo, TiVo, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

I believe everyone wants to be more effective and more fulfilled in life. Usually we don’t know HOW to achieve that. And often we don’t know what skills are important to develop to increase our overall effectiveness and satisfaction in work, and to position ourselves for greater responsibility. I help clients to understand WHAT they need to work on, and then HOW to achieve their developmental goals. I partner with clients as a guide, a mirror, a challenger, a support system, a sounding board—to name a few roles. I help them to develop new awarenesses, master new skills, assimilate new ways of seeing the world and shift their way of being in a way that not only meets their developmental goals but also creates the ability to continue growing—as a person and as a leader. I’ve been coaching at Google since 2003.

Speaker: Greg Gillis
I combine real-world wisdom, gathered through years of high technology corporate experience, with solid coaching expertise and training — to help successful people become even more successful. I help my client’s transition from manager to leader, enhance their leadership skills, better work within political infrastructures, delegate effectively, and collaborate wisely. I often increase their awareness of power in the organization, how it is acquired, manifested, held and diminished. I enhance their influence skills–critical to a leader’s growth in managing cross-functionally. I increase their awareness about emotional intelligence and interpersonal effectiveness while helping them shift to a more encompassing outlook resulting in more successful performance.

Duration : 0:55:40

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