ADVISORY/BlueStep CEO to Speak on "Collaboration: The New Technology Buzzword" at Salt Lake Rotary Club, Tuesday, Sept. 11.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Sept. 11) SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2001 Former Marriott Executive, Richard D. Hanks, Highlights Benefits of "Virtual Teamwork" Made Possible by the Internet BlueStep Inc.'s President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard D. Hanks, will address the Salt Lake Rotary Club on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at the Wyndham Hotel (215 West South Temple) on the topic of "Collaboration: The New Technology Buzzword A term that refers to the latest technology or a term that sounds catchy. If not a flash in the pan, new technologies become mainstream. For example, Java was a hot buzzword in the 1990s, but should remain a major topic for decades. ." "The cost savings, productivity and competitive advantages created by `virtual teaming' on the Internet will be enormous over the next few years," Hanks said. "The Internet allows individuals and groups to cooperatively perform complex business functions, regardless of geographic or time zone separation. With virtual collaboration Virtual Collaboration - Two or more people collaborating together to accomplish a task without the use of face to face interaction. Examples of Virtual Collaboration include Audio Conferencing, Video Conferencing, or Computer mediated communication. , meetings become places of decision-making and forward motion, rather than maneuvering and administration." Hanks has more than 17 years of leadership experience at Marriott, Frito-Lay and Price Waterhouse. He joined BlueStep after 11 years with Marriott International Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a range of value and luxury hotels and related lodging facilities. Marriott currently has 2,300 accommodation properties in North America alone. , most recently as a corporate officer and executive vice president of sales, where he led the sales, distribution, and revenue management efforts for Marriott's 13 lodging brands worldwide, totaling $17 billion in revenues. Hanks' accomplishments at Marriott prompted Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. to refer to him as an "important Internet champion" in his book "Business @ the Speed of Thought." Hanks' responsibilities have included marketing strategy, pricing, yield-management, market research, customer satisfaction and competitive assessment strategies and campaigns. He is also an author and frequent speaker/teacher at trade, academic and professional gatherings. Hanks actively participates on various boards of universities, centers, and foundations, and is an adjunct adjunct (aj´ungkt), n a drug or other substance that serves a supplemental purpose in therapy. adjunct professor at Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. . For more information about the Salt Lake Rotary Club, call 801/363-8415. About BlueStep BlueStep Inc. provides Web-based collaborative solutions designed to unify 1. (database, product) Unify - A relational database produced by Unify Corporation. 2. (algorithm) unify - To perform unification. the extended enterprise and increase organizational productivity. BlueStep's configurable software gives customers the Internet infrastructure to deliver information, manage projects, and share real-time computing “Realtime” redirects here. For other uses, see Realtime (disambiguation). In computer science, real-time computing (RToC) is the study of hardware and software systems which are subject to a "real-time constraint"—i.e. power across an organization -- regardless of complexity, size or location. Products include tools for team project collaboration and content publishing of permission-based, hierarchical intranets, extranets and corporate Web spaces. The company has executive and technical offices in Salt Lake City, and additional client service locations nationwide. For more information, visit www.BlueStep.NET or call toll-free 877/264-4239. |
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