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Industry Experts Explore Crucial Organizational Change Issues at Intergraph Process, Power & Marine APEX Summit 2004
Business Wire, June 17, 2004
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- People, Work Processes and Technology Interdependent Keys to Successful Change
E[acute accent]Industry experts explore how an organization's ability to introduce change is crucial to business success, Sept. 13 at the APEX Summit 2004 conference (www.apexsummit.com), the Process, Power & Marine division of Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ:INGR) announced today. Work force consultant Roger Herman leads the roundtable, which features Glenn Gilkey of Fluor Corp., Bernhard Weber of Procter & Gamble and Ben Eazzetta of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine. The roundtable centers on how change affects - and is in turn affected by - an organization's people, work processes and technology. Topics encompass strategies for successfully implementing organizational change, including communicating the business reasons for change, planning the implementation and execution of change and gaining executive and employee buy-in. Gilkey, Weber and Eazzetta offer the practical benefit of their experiences in managing organizational change. Click to www.apexsummit.com/registration.asp to register for APEX Summit, Sept. 12 - 15, at The Woodlands, Houston, Texas, USA.
E[acute accent]Experts Join to Illuminate Key Issues
E[acute accent]Noted work force expert, author and consultant Roger Herman leads the roundtable, open to all APEX Summit and Executive Forum participants. Herman is the founder and chief executive officer of The Herman Group, a consulting firm focusing on work force and workplace trends, employee retention and work force stability. Since 1980, he has published 11 books, including Keeping Good People, and 1,000 magazine articles. Herman also has given 2,500 speeches and training seminars. E[acute accent]Glenn Gilkey, vice president of Project Execution Services at Fluor, offers insights from his 20-plus years at one of the world's largest engineering, procurement and construction companies. He has served in numerous management roles at Fluor, participating in many organizational change initiatives. E[acute accent]Bernhard Weber, associate director of Baby Care Process & Engineering for Procter & Gamble, highlights the benefits of his own experience in managing organizational changes. He recently was part of a major change effort that included merging parts of R&D and engineering to create his current organization. E[acute accent]Ben Eazzetta, the chief operating officer and executive vice president of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, explores how technology prompts and impacts change. He also brings to the roundtable 12 years of management and engineering organization experience with Exxon.
E[acute accent]APEX Summit Responds to Unprecedented Opportunity
E[acute accent]APEX Summit is the new global industry conference that brings together the people, the roadmap and the technology for enabling engineering to advance and sustain increased profitability. The event is sponsored by Intergraph and the Process & Power Client Community. APEX Summit is aimed at helping Intergraph clients entrench engineering information and intelligent software as an indispensable part of decision-making, retool work processes to boost profitability and productivity and develop new business models to compete in dynamic, demanding global markets. E[acute accent]APEX stands for Advancing Profitability through Engineering eXcellence. APEX Summit responds directly to the new era of opportunity for project and plant engineering to achieve greater profitability by capitalizing on engineering asset information for more optimal business decisions and fundamental work process improvement. E[acute accent]Providing in-depth business content as well as practical value, the conference includes an Executive Forum and Business and Technology Tracks featuring industry and business luminaries, Process & Power Client Community activities, workshops, special events and a technology showcase.
E[acute accent]Process, Power & Marine: Integrating the Engineering Enterprise
E[acute accent]Process, Power & Marine (ppm.intergraph.com) is a provider of intelligent software and services enabling companies to integrate engineering information to promote profitability, improve operational excellence and safety and manage assets. The company helps clients bring together the people, work processes and advanced technology to create the global engineering enterprise. Built on a quarter century of experience, Process, Power & Marine supplies innovative lifecycle solutions for concurrent engineering design, construction and operation. Serving the process manufacturing, power generation, marine oil and gas and commercial shipbuilding markets, Process, Power & Marine is a division of Intergraph Corporation and is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
E[acute accent](C) 2004 Intergraph Corporation. Intergraph and SmartPlant are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. Software and services prices, availability, functions, features and specifications subject to change without notice and are subject to United States export control laws and regulations. This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events subject to certain risks and uncertainties of Intergraph Corporation which are discussed in the company's Form 10K filed with the SEC. Copies available upon request to Shareholder Relations, Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, Ala. 35894 USA.
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