Day One Keynote: “The HR Scorecard - Linking People, Strategy and Performance”
Dr. Beatty will review his research on the importance for global employers to adopt strategic initiatives which include; a business strategy, an HR strategy and the often overlooked “workforce strategy”. In this session, you will learn of all the controllable factors affecting the creation of wealth, a workforce that can consistently execute strategy is a firm’s most valuable asset.
Speaker: R. Beatty
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Centralizing Global Data to Make Better Decisions a Kraft Case Study
As the global economy continues to expand, companies are finding it more difficult to maintain the levels of visibility and control needed to uphold world-class operations. Hear how Kraft Foods centralized their programs to ensure optimal performance and providing their local and regional stakeholders the tools to manage their programs efficiently while meeting the needs of the business and the needs of our employees.
Speaker: J. Armenio
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Day Two Keynote: International Health Care Cost Containment While Improving Employee Satisfaction
Tom Emerick will examine how the use of data improves health plan design, pharmacy plan design, network contracting, and more. By utilizing the information, HR executives will be better prepared to act on strategic initiatives. This session will also allow you to;
- Hear about a new emerging definition of quality in health care
- See comparisons of U.S. outcomes to "peer" countries
- Understand how wellness & preventative health plan trends will look in the future
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Leveraging Technology in All Aspects of Plan Design a Staples Case Study
Too often HR teams find themselves bogged down by the overwhelming amount of disparate data, leaving them unable to add strategic value. This was not am option for Staples, who knew they had to be more efficient and effective with their data in order to remain strategic. By understanding that visibility into plan designs and pricing is more important today, than ever before, Staples leveraged technology to streamline the HR process without sacrificing quality and service.
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Negotiating a Contract for a Successful Provider Relationship a Texas Instruments Case Study
Switching benefits administration providers is not an easy task - from determining if you should move to a new provider(s) to defining and negotiating the contract terms. Texas Instruments, winner of NBGH’s Best Healthy Places to Work in 2007, knew that they needed to execute a best practice process to evaluate and select the benefits administrator outsourcing provider and negotiate the contract terms. This discussion will focus on how TI negotiated the resulting contract to create a framework for a successful relationship – for TI and for the provider.
Speakers: L. Alessandra & J. Schreck
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Looking Ahead – HighRoads Roadmap & Enhancements
Today’s HighRoads solutions are built to address administrative challenges faced by our clients on a yearly basis. Constantly striving to address additional challenges, we are committed to evolving our model – developing new efficient ways to streamline business processes, centralize and encourage the re-use of data, and increase visibility and control. In doing so, HighRoads is both expanding the scope of existing solutions as well as developing new, highly relevant technology and service offerings.
Speaker: K. Brand
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Saving Money & Increasing Efficiencies in Face-to-Face Vendor Summit Meetings an Avery Dennison Case Study
Avery Dennison wants its vendors to identify with their corporate culture. By collaborating with those who mimic the same values and goals towards the “customer” experience, Avery Dennison can compare, measure, and monitor their shared business objectives a lot easier. Thus solidifying its vendor relationship into a more effective and efficient program.
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Implementing New Benefits Management
Like most Fortune 500 companies, IBM had to do more with less. By creating a system of record with automated data feeds to their suppliers, IBM was able to reduce the following: consulting spend, dependency on their HR consultant and data errors. The combination of the automated data feeds to their benefits administration partner, along with a newly initiated vendor summit resulted in more effective, efficient delivery of health benefits to IBM employees.
Speakers: M. Sementz & D. Lynch
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The Devil Is In the Details – How HighRoads SPD Solution Helps Repair a Broken Process
Every year, HR teams race to integrate updates from plan providers before open enrollment season begins. Most teams have dozens of SPDs to prepare, each requiring line-by-line scrutiny to ensure that information is accurately presented to employees. Even for those companies who don’t update annually, SPDs top the list of must-do’s that no one wants to do. The work is grueling, driving many companies to contract third-party consultants or law firms to manage the process (paying a premium for a highly administrative activity)—or just giving up. Hear how HighRoads can help you reduce your fees and be more efficient.
Speakers: K. Buckey & V. Kolbe
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Lita Alessandra, VP and manager of Compensation, Benefits and HR M&A for Texas Instruments
Lita Alessandra is VP and manager of Compensation, Benefits and HR M&A for Texas Instruments (“TI”), world leader in providing innovative DSP and analog technologies to help its customers create the world’s most advanced electronics. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has 15,000 employees in the Americas and more than 30,000 employees worldwide in over 25 countries including Asia and Europe.
Previously, Lita held the positions of HR Director TI’s Application Specific Products, Director of Compensation, HR manager for mergers and acquisitions and manager of TI’s financial benefits.
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Joanne Armenio, Kraft
Joanne has been with Kraft Foods for over 10 years and during her tenure has been responsible for a wide variety of US benefits including strategy and vendor management of the 401(k) plans, employee communication (print and web design), Canadian benefits, mergers, acquisitions, sales and closings. Currently Joanne is responsible for the development of Kraft’s international benefits strategy in approximately 70 different countries and works closely with Kraft’s regional Compensation & Benefits teams. In addition, Joanne is responsible for strategic benefits support for US collectively bargained facilities, mergers, acquisitions, sales and closings, all aspects of benefits in Canada and expatriate employee benefits.
Prior to joining Kraft, Joanne was the Director of Benefits for Hyatt Hotels Corporation focusing on US employee benefits.
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Richard (Dick) Beatty, PhD, Rutgers University
Dick is professor of Human Resource Management at Rutgers University and a member of the Core Faculty of the University of Michigan’s Executive Education Center. Professor Beatty was president of the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation, a recipient of the society’s Book Award, and twice received the Research Award from the Human Resource Planning Society. He is the author of Performance Appraisal: Managing Human Behavior at Work and Human Resource Management: An Experiential Skill-Building Approach, and is co-author of The Workforce Scorecard with Mark Huselid and Brian Becker. His research interests are in strategic human resource strategy and measuring all aspects of workforce performance.
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Kristina Brand, HighRoads
Kristina Brand is the Director of Product Marketing & Management at HighRoads and brings with her over 16 years of marketing experience in high tech. Prior to joining HighRoads she has held various product marketing positions at a number of enterprise software companies including Progress Software and Performix Solutions from NICE Systems. Kristina holds a B.S. in marketing and an MBA in Management from Simmons College in Boston and she is responsible for the HighRoads product solutions.
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Kim Buckey, HighRoads
Kim runs the newly created SPD Services team, a one-stop shop providing SPD support from strategy to content development through content management and production. Kim has 30 years of employee communications experience, including 25 years specializing in compliance communications.
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Michael Byers, HighRoads
Mike is President & COO of HighRoads. Mike oversees sales, services, marketing, product development and finance. Mike has led HighRoads transformation from an enterprise software company to a software as a service organization.
Mike was previously CEO of Centive, a founding company in the Enterprise Incentive Management (EIM) market. Mike raised in excess of $70 million in venture capital, built the management team and grew revenue from zero to in-excess of $25 million. Prior to joining Centive, Mike served as CFO and VP Finance for NuMega Technologies, Inc where he negotiated the sale of the company to Compuware (NASDAQ; CPWR) for $150 million. Mike has also held senior finance positions.
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Vikki Kolbe, HighRoads
Vikki leads the company’s professional services team, providing customers with intelligence and support to gain maximum value from HighRoads’ benefits lifecycle management solutions. Vikki has more than 25 years of experience in engineering, services and corporate operational management. As an executive and consultant, she has helped dozens of technology, life and health sciences companies adopt, implement and manage solutions that deliver predictable, measure-able improvements in productivity, efficiency and revenue.
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Paul Daoust, HighRoads
Paul is Chairman of the Board and CEO of HighRoads. Paul has helped define HighRoads as a disruptive technology solution in the F500 marketplace to gain greater efficiency, productivity and cost savings for historically manual and time intensive processes. In this role, Paul is the Industry visionary helping to drive the strategic direction of HighRoads to serve its customers and partners.
Paul is a recognized leader in the HR consulting and insurance industries. He spent 30 years with Watson Wyatt Worldwide, one of the world's leading human resource consulting firms, in a variety of consulting and management roles including Chief Operating Officer. On Paul's watch, Watson Wyatt's worldwide consulting operations doubled revenues and tripled profits while cementing the worldwide alliance with the blue chip consultancy R Watson & Sons.
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Tom Emerick, Emerick Consulting
Thomas G. Emerick is the President of Emerick Consulting, LLC. Tom´s years with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Burger King Corporation, British Petroleum, and American Fidelity Assurance Company have provided an excellent blend of experience and contacts. His last position with Wal-Mart was Vice President, Global Benefit Design. Tom has served on a variety of employer coalitions and associations, including being on the board of the influential National Business Group on Health, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce Benefit Committee, and many others.
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Nancy Lazgin, Staples, Inc.
Nancy Lazgin is Director, Global Benefits for Staples, Inc., the world’s largest office products company with over $18.2 billion in sales and 74,000 associates who make purchasing easy for their customers. As Director, she oversees benefits’ strategy and sourcing in 22 countries. In addition, she and her team are responsible for domestic benefit sourcing, vendor and performance management as well as benefit design, implementation and ongoing associate education and engagement.
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David Lynch, IBM Health Benefits Delivery and Operations
David Lynch is a program manager with the Global Health Benefits Design & Strategy team within IBM, the world's largest technology company. David has been with IBM for five years and is currently responsible for leading vendor selection in the US, the US HMO renewal negotiations, global benefits database, the US benefits pricing and migration analyses, as well as overseeing the relationship with HighRoads. In addition to these benefits related responsibilities, David has also been involved in IBM's corporate pandemic planning, led the occupational health & safety benchmarking project, and served as controller for the Global Well-being Services organization.
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Marianne Semenetz, IBM Health Benefits Delivery and Operations
Marianne Semenetz has been with IBM for 20 years and has worked in every aspect of health benefits including developing new benefits strategies and co-managing the implementation of HighRoads for IBM's annual HMO renewals. IBM offers approximately 60 HMOs in the US to its 125,000 employees and 126,000 retirees. As Program Manager, she oversees the annual renewal process including data feeds between HMOs, HighRoads and Fidelity, IBM's TPA. In addition, she is responsible for HMO, FSA, self insured medical and International Assignment vendor and performance management.
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Jane Schreck, HighRoads
Jane is a deeply experienced consultant who brings unparalleled relationship management skills to every client she works with. She offers significant expertise in both the implementation and operation of employee benefit plans. Jane has led more than 20 multi-million dollar project implementations using standardized and highly effective project governance standards and practices.
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