Mike Hugos spent six years as CIO of a national distribution organization where he developed a suite of supply chain and e-business systems that transformed the company's operations and revenue model. For this work he twice won the CIO 100 Award for resourcefulness and boldness, the InformationWeek 500 Award for innovation and the Computerworld Premier 100 Award for career achievement.
 
Michael Hugos writes the CIO Magazine blog Doing Business in Real Time and has authored seven books including the popular Essentials of Supply Chain Management, and his latest book, Business in the Cloud: What Every Business Needs to Know about Cloud Computing.

Michael Hugos has spoken at conferences and taught seminars in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

Michael Hugos is passionate about agile development methods in IT and business and has mentored managers and development teams in companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks Coffee, Aramark Healthcare and U.S. Navy Medical Logistics Command as well as numerous smaller companies.

Mike Hugos earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Sample Keynote Presentations

Doing Business in the Cloud

What is cloud computing and how it is changing the nature of corporate business structures. The cloud is creating dramatic new options for variable cost business models that better manage risk and enable faster and more agile enterprises.

Tao of Supply Chains

See how to turn commodity products into valuable solutions to unique customer needs by wrapping them with tailored supply chain services. Learn to identify customer needs and effectively deliver value added supply chain services to meet those needs. Customers will pay extra for services with a provable value proposition.

Established Company Looking for Chief Innovation Officer

In business it’s not just innovative ideas that you need; what really counts is turning those ideas into profitable offerings customers want to buy. How will the chief innovation officer and the creative types be integrated into the rest of the company? Are they just going to dream up ideas and toss them over the wall to be delivered by others or will they have their own delivery capabilities?

IT Agility Makes Work Fun Again

IT people get no respect from business people – here’s what to do about it. Respond to business needs quickly using 30-60-90 day cycles to deliver working systems and then continuously enhance them with new features as the world unfolds and new needs arise.

Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World

Learn five key characteristics of the agile enterprise that companies are using to become more agile and adaptive, and see how organizations are changing their financial and operating structures and their supporting IT architecture to respond in real time.

A Formula to Measure Business Agility

Drawing on my experience as a CIO and working with clients, actual business and IT strategies are presented to deliver business success and earn the “agility dividend” of profit margins consistently 2 to 4 percent higher than the going market rate.