Jim Stikeleather

Chief Innovation Officer Dell

  • Tampa FL

Rev up the engines of your event and glimpse the future with Dell's Chief Innovation Officer, who explains & evaluates emerging technologies

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Biography

For more than 30 years, Jim Stikeleather has designed, developed and implemented award winning information and communications technologies that help businesses and institutions succeed.

Currently, Jim serves as Chief Innovation Officer for Dell Services where he leads a team of information technology and business experts who identify, evaluate and assess the future potential of new technologies, business models and processes to address evolving business, economic and social trends for the company and customers.

He has spoken and consulted internationally on digital infrastructures, evaluation of emerging technologies, and provided strategic guidance on their application to achieve business outcomes. He participates in international technology standards bodies, has multiple book and industry-article contributions to his credit and advises a number of technology incubators. Additionally, Jim holds two patents.

Jim’s leadership experience includes technology based services start-ups and turnarounds as well as the information technology departments within large global enterprises.

Industry Expertise

Computer Networking
Management Consulting
Computer/Network Security
Internet
Computer Hardware
VC and Private Equity
Computer Software
IT Services/Consulting
Information Technology and Services
Wireless

Areas of Expertise

Business Planning and Modeling
Influencing Organizational Innovation
Unlocking Business Innovation in the Social Enterprise
Software Development Environments and Methods
Software as A Service
Product Management
Process Engineering
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Architecture

Accomplishments

Author

Business Innovation in the Cloud: Executing on Innovation with Cloud Computing is a book about executing on innovation in the 21st Century world of exponential and unpredictable change. The book, in an innovative multimedia format, provides an agenda for enabling innovation in your organization, and lays out a strategy framework for execution by harnessing the revolutionary business platform, the Cloud.

Chief Innovation Officer – Dell

The Dell Services Office of Innovation focuses on "around the corner" "over the horizon" futurecasting—looking at economic, social, demographic, legal, regulatory, business and technology trends to see how the world "wants" to change, and how technology can enable, facilitate or accelerate those changes. These futurecasts are then used to construct a future vision, the role Dell Services will play in that future vision and points of view on how to get to that future.

Education

University of South Florida

MBA

1987

Texas Christian University

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science

1976

Event Appearances

Business Innovation in the Cloud

Cloud Connect Conference  Santa Clara, California

2012-02-13

The Importance of Innovation

Innovation Academy Speaker Series  Dublin, Ireland

2011-09-20

KEYNOTE SPEECH – Holes in the Whole: Crafting Security for the Pervasive Web

The Open Group Conference San Diego  San Diego, California

2011-02-07

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Sample Talks

Leadership in Technology: How to Bolster the Impact of Today’s CIO

In a time of increasing business change, there’s a movement towards the decentralization of IT resources, along with an increase in externally delivered cloud-based technologies. Increasingly, the CIO must be viewed less as the deliverer of technology resources and more as the driver of innovation and transformation within each enterprise – and industry. Join Mr. Stikeleather for a discussion on the topic of how to increase the relevance of the CIO in today’s changing business environment.

Creating Systemic Innovation: Assessing Your Organization’s Innovation DNA

The term “innovation,” when correctly understood, refers to a new way of doing something. It may
be an incremental and emergent change, or it could be a radical and revolutionary shift in thinking,
products, processes or organizations. This presentation will explore the difference between
“invention” (an idea made manifest) and “innovation” (ideas applied successfully in practice) with
key insights for accelerating forward momentum and balancing organizational risk taking.

Unlocking Business Innovation in the Social Enterprise

As new business models emerge from the confluence of rapid technology change, expanding customer power and vertical market realignment, your company’s future depends on striking the right balance between innovation and efficiency. The main source of new products, services and process improvements will be coming directly from customers and online communities. Join Jim Stikeleather for this expert session on using IT to enable and accelerate business innovation in this new ecosystem.

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Availability

  • Keynote
  • Moderator
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Host/MC
  • Author Appearance
  • Corporate Training