<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Hmmm, how do we get tickets for this? Is the events office online?<div>I am very interested.<br><br><br><font size="2">Sent from my works toilet</font></div><br><br><br>Steve Almond <steve@silkandslug.com> wrote:<br><br><br>FYI.<br><br>I really enjoyed the IBM/BCS lecture last year, so want to go to this. <br>Alas, I'm travelling to a funeral that night, darnit!<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br>How to Survive 100 years in the IT industry<br><br>Wednesday 19 October 2011, 6.30pm<br><br>Speaker: Steve Wood, Strategy Vice-President, IBM UK<br><br>IBM Centenary Lecture<br><br>"A century of corporate life has taught IBM this truth: To make an<br>enduring impact over the long term, you have to manage for the long<br>term"<br><br>If the many men and women of IBM's past were to visit today, they<br>would hardly recognize the products or the services. But they would<br>recognise the importance of pioneering these spaces to make the world<br>work better through information and the tools of thinking.<br>In today’s competitive business environment adaptability and<br>creativity are some of the key tools in a business’ armoury. Find out<br>from Steve Woods, IBM Vice-president of Strategy the key lessons they<br>have learned, what every IT company needs to know to survive and what<br>they're doing to survive the next 100 years.<br><br>"A company can, and must, change everything about itself ...except its beliefs"<br><br>Admission by free ticket only, available from the events office.<br><br>Location: Lecture Theatre, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York<br><br><br><br><br>With best wishes,<br><br>Sam Gardner<br><br>Communications Officer<br>Research and Enterprise<br>Innovation Centre, York Science Park<br>Heslington, York<br>YO10 5DG<br>01904 435111<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>York mailing list<br>York@lists.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/york<br> </body>