Welcome to the PricewaterhouseCoopers E-Business Chair at K.U.Leuven

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Tuesday, February 22, 19h: New Media and innovative E-Business in the Supermarket:
Contradiction, Waste of Capital, or Strategic Business Driver?
Prof. Claudia Loebbecke, Department of Media Management, University of Cologne

Claudia Loebbecke is Director of the Department of Media Management at the University of Cologne.  As of July 2005 she will be President of the global 'Association of Information Systems (AIS)'.

New Media and innovative eBusiness technologies revolutionize the Point of Sales. But consumers did not ask for barcode scanners, touch-screen kiosks, liquid-crystal displays, or any other specific technology. Instead, they demand more accurate price information, more complete and current product information, assistance in finding specific items, less out-of-stocks, and a faster checkout.  ...more...

Tuesday, March 1, 19h: Mastering the content challenge: impossible dream or closer to reality ?
Peter Hinssen, Porthus Extended Enterprise Solutions

ir. Peter Hinssen, one of the Belgian Internet pioneers, is now active in the world of venture capital and Internet coaching, chairman of Porthus, and active coach of Amplexor.

The presentation covers lifecycle issues in Enterprise Content management, with specific emphasis on content, document trails, traceability, management, compliance.  ...more...

Tuesday, March 15, 19h: Business Processes, B2B Integration and the Semantic Web
Prof. Christoph Bussler, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland

Christoph Bussler is Science Foundation Ireland Professor and Executive Director of  Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

His research interests include: B2B Integration Architectures, Workflow Management, Semantic Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, Distributed Process Management.  ...more...

Tuesday, March 22, 19h: E-Business Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities
Prof.Melody Kiang, Prof. Robert Chi, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, California State University

Melody Y. Kiang is Professor of Information Systems at California State University, Long Beach.  Her research emphasizes the development and applications of AI techniques to a variety of management problems and E-business applications.
Robert Chi is the Chair and Professor of Information Systems at California State University, Long Beach.  His research emphasizes the development of E-commerce, information strategies, and artificial intelligence techniques.  He is the founder and co-editor of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research.

The impact of E-business is far from over and will continue its revolution when new technologies and new application emerge.  We will discuss the future picture of E-business applications and its implication on individuals, business, government, and research.  The potential opportunities of creating new products, services and innovative business models will continue to bring new excitement to each individuals life and venture capitalists.   After all, what we have experienced is just the beginning of the E-business revolution.  ...more...

Tuesday, April 12, 19h: Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
Prof. Nick Jennings, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

Nick Jennings is Professor of Computer Science in the 5*-rated School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University where he carries out research in agent-based computing.  Professor Jennings helped pioneer the application of multi-agent technology; developing some of the first real-world systems. This focus led him into the areas of agent-based software engineering and the Semantic Grid.

Computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate with one another in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements are likely to become pervasive in the next generation of e-commerce (and a range of other networked systems besides including the Semantic Web, the Grid, and Pervasive Computing).  ...more...

Tuesday, April 19, 19h: Innovative Financial and Business Reporting and XBRL
Lindsey Domingo and Bart Kuipers, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Lindsey Domingo is a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Belgium. He specialises in Corporate Reporting and has worked with organisations across industries and territories to help them evaluate the systems and process implications of their transition to IFRS. Lindsey was one of the speakers at the 10th XBRL International conference last November.
Bart Kuipers is a Principal Advisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers Belgium. He has been responsible for evaluating XBRL software applications for more than 3 years, as well as developing demos and proof-and-concepts. Bart has also been involved in several projects for embedding XBRL within reporting processes.

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a reporting standard and a market-driven undertaking to address the corporate reporting issues of transparency, accuracy and integrity. It has begun to revolutionise how businesses provide information to investors, markets and regulators.   ...more...

Tuesday, April 26, 19h: Media with a Purpose - Public Service Broadcasting in the Digital Era
Tony Mary, CEO VRT




Harry Sorgeloos, General Director Strategy, Technology and Innovation, VRT



VRT and other players in the entertainment industry are facing daunting challenges as they prepare for the future media world. As a media company, as well as a public organisation, VRT has to prepare for the digital era.  ...more...

Tuesday, May 10, 19h:  IT Governance in Belgium
Daniel Evrard and Dirk Steuperaert, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dirk Steuperaert joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1997.  Within the Belgian Advisory practice of PwC, Dirk is responsible for IT Governance services. Dirk is also the CobiT subject matter expert through his involvement in the Belux Chapter of ISACA and his membership of the CobiT Steering Committe of the IT Governance Institute.

 

Daniel Evrard joined Price Waterhouse Belgium in 1992, Partner since 1997.  The main focus is on IT organisation, Project management and Business Process Changes through Application implementation, ERP systems (SAP predominantly).

IT is essential to manage transactions, information and knowledge necessary to initiate and sustain economic and social activities. In this session, PricewaterhouseCoopers will share the results of its latest international CIO survey on IT alignment with Business strategies and position an IT Governance framework as a mean to achieve alignment.  ...more...

Tuesday, May 17, 19h:  Forum: The Future of Innovative E-Business
Dirk Avau, Vice President BirchBob

BirchBob, internet technology for worldwide technology exchange

Guido Van Humbeeck, Managing Partner Application Engineers
ICT and E-Business

Thursday, February 19, 2004: A Framework for Information Management and Enterprise Change
John A. Zachman, Zachman International

John Zachman is the world's leading expert on Enterprise Architecture, and author of the internationally renowned Framework for Enterprise Architecture.

The information revolution has become a reality and the world has become a global, electronic marketplace.  Enterprise Architecture is fundamental for enabling an enterprise to assimilate internal changes in response to the external dynamics and uncertainties of the information age environment.  ...more...

Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 19h: Information Lifecycle and the Value Chain
Peter Hinssen, Porthus Extended Enterprise Solutions

ir. Peter Hinssen, one of the Belgian Internet pioneers, is now active in the world of venture capital and Internet coaching, chairman of Porthus, and active coach of Amplexor.

The presentation covers lifecycle issues in Enterprise Content management, with specific emphasis on content, document trails, traceability, management, compliance.  ...more...

Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 19h: Sources of Information Value: the Information Value Chain
Prof. Josep Valor (IESE Business School,  Barcelona)

Josep Valor is Professor of Information Technology at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He is a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT and has been a Visiting Professor at MITs Sloan School of Management.

Sources of Information Value deals with the information industries in a broad sense. It provides a framework of analysis to help understand the different competitive strategies of companies that happen to compete fiercely from within seemingly unrelated industries. These include, among others, telecommunication carriers, software developers and content providers.  ...more...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 19h: E-business and the organization
Patrick Okerman (Inno.com)

Patrick Okerman is Program Manager at Inno.com and currently working at Goffin Bank as Interim IT Manager. He participated to the founding of Inno.com in 1998 and was responsible for the delivery of e-business projects at IJsboerke, PEFA.COM, TMME, De Persgroep, Cortal, VIZO, etc.  Previously, he worked at Cimad/IBM Professional Services as Delivery Manager for the Government & Public Sector.

The presentation E-business and the organization is built around the Inno.com framework for Technology Adoption. This framework is based on 3 pillars: Organization, Processes and Resources. The theory behind this framework is explained and it is described how you should handle the 3 pillars in order to become a successful e-business company.  Furthermore, a lot of emphasis will go to some real-life cases from the experience of the lecturer (projects IJsboerke, PEFA.COM and others).  ...more...

Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 18h: Markten en vermarkten in samenlevingsnetwerken (Dutch)
Videoconferentie Mens, Markt en Maatschappij
Prof. Piet Vanden Abeele (K.U.Leuven)

Prof. dr. Piet Vanden Abeele is vice-rector van de K.U.Leuven en campusrector van KULAK.  Hij is hoogleraar in de Marketing en in de Economische Psychologie aan de K.U.Leuven

Producten, ook verbruiksgoederen, zijn steeds meer verpakte kennis; de markt bestaat niet noodzakelijk uit onafhankelijke klanten, maar vaak ook uit genetwerkte gemeenschappen; de technologie, vooral de ICT, biedt nieuwe mogelijkheden om vraag en aanbod te ontwikkelen en op elkaar af te stemmen.  ...more...

Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 19h: E-government in Belgium
Frank Robben  (Crossroads Bank for Social Security)

Frank Robben is general manager of the Crossroads Bank for Social Security, mentioned as a best practice on the combination of back office integration and an E-portal solution in the web based survey on electronic public services. Frank is also strategic advisor at FEDICT, the Belgian federal public service responsible for E-government.

E- government is a structural reform process based on a view of information as a strategic resource in all areas of government activity. It implies a fundamental, customer-oriented re-engineering of the service delivery processes of government bodies as well as organizational changes within those bodies.  ...more...

Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 19h: New auction designs supporting complex procurement negotiations in SCM and finance
Prof. Dr. Martin Bichler (Internet-based Information Systems, Technical University of Munich)

Martin Bichler received his Ph. D. from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, where he was Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems.  He was a research fellow at UC Berkeley and research staff member in the Deep E-Commerce team of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

The increasingly dynamic nature of business-to-business electronic commerce has produced a recent shift away from fixed pricing and toward flexible pricing. In this lecture we survey ongoing work in dynamic pricing. We review negotiation mechanisms for industrial procurement and finance, including optimization approaches to the evaluation of complex, multidimensional bids. We conclude with a discussion of future research directions in this rapidly growing area.  ...more...

Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 19h: E-invoicing
PricewaterhouseCoopers

In this session, which will combine presentations from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the general business and regulatory context of e-invoicing with example cases, the following presenters will illustrate how to deal effectively with these questions: Wim Den Haese, Director, and Marc Joostens, Senior Manager, both with PricewaterhouseCoopers where they are involved with e-invoicing projects.

Attracted by the potential cost-savings associated with moving away from paper based systems, more and more companies are considering to implement electronic invoicing and archiving. Studies show that shifting from paper to electronic invoicing can generate cost savings of up to 75% of the invoicing related cost.  For companies that want to adopt e-invoicing, numerous questions arise, such as:  ...more...

Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 19h: E-Business, ICT and productivity: S*P*A*M
Will spam force us back to the fax ?, Dominique Deckmyn (Editor in chief, Smart Business Strategies),
For the individual computer user, spam is an irritation. For the enterprise, it is much worse. ...more...

Overview and evaluation of anti-spam legislation in Europe and the US, Prof. J. Dumortier (ICRI, K.U.Leuven)
In the Autumn of 2003 new European legislation with regard to unsolicited commercial e-mail became effective. ...more...

Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 19h: Ondernemen met Informatie
In deze sessie getuigen een aantal alumni beleidsinformatici van het departement Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen van de K.U.Leuven over hun ervaringen met ondernemerschap en het eigen bedrijf.

De sessie is opgezet als een panel met een korte inleiding door elk van de panelleden (voorstelling van bedrijf en ervaringen).   Daarna is er een forumgesprek over Ondernemen en Informatica in Vlaanderen.

Deelnemers zijn: Jan Callewaert (Option International), Jo Coutuer (Hallemeesch & Coutuer), Hans Leybaert (UnifiedPost), Patrick Merlevede (Acknowledge), Freddy Nurski (N2Euro), Paul Van Coillie (Arco)

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EXTRA EVENT

Tuesday, July 6, 2004, 16h: Knowledge Management Afternoon

Knowledge Audit, Social Network Analysis, and Knowledge Management Strategy Formulation.

Addressing Strategic Human Capital Concerns via Knowledge Management

View invitation.