MISRC PRESENTS:
Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC) Seminar Series located in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota Presents:
Title:The Tartan Transformation at Cargill
Speaker: John Geisler, Corporate Vice President, Cargill, Incorporated
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010
Time: Check-In 8:00 AM, Seminar 8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Location: Carlson School of Management 2-206, 2nd floor Directions from the 19th Ave. Parking ramp-Proceed through the skyway from the ramp (3rd floor of the ramp) and continue into the Carlson School around the corner towards the right (entrance from the skyway-3rd floor is the entrance to the 2nd floor of the Carlson School) and a short way down the hallway 2-206 is the 1st door on the right.
Registration: http://www.misrc.umn.edu/registration/
Seminar page: http://www.misrc.umn.edu/seminars/2010-04-30/
Calendar page: http://www.misrc.umn.edu/calendar/
Parking page: http://www.misrc.umn.edu/parking/
Abstract
Cargill, an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services, is ready for big change. Already a market leader with 159,000 employees and $116 billion in revenue, Cargill is taking a bold, well-planned step to achieve its strategic objectives and growth aspirations. Through Tartan, Cargill will connect 80 business units in 68 countries under a common business process and governance model enabled by SAP and other technologies.
This keynote address features John Geisler, corporate vice president and Tartan Leader, to highlight lessons learned after the first two years of this decade-long journey and how Cargill will sustain this change.
Presenter
John Geisler serves as corporate vice president with responsibilities for Cargills Global Food Ingredient businesses. His role as a Cargill corporate vice president is to focus on leveraging knowledge, perspectives and experience to make connections across the Cargill portfolio of businesses and its people.
Geisler joined Cargill in 1978 and held a number of positions in Cargills wheat milling business until he was named country manager of Cargills operations in Thailand in 1993. In 1996 he returned to Minneapolis and soon was named President of Cargills worldwide dry milling division and executive supervisor of its worldwide malting business.
He is currently deeply involved in the Tartan project, which is a major corporate undertaking to improve and redesign the key business processes we use to run and manage our businesses and to make them common across Cargill. It is also to improve how we capture and maintain our critical business information, the standardization of key Cargill data as well as to simplify and consolidate our portfolio of software applications, and upgrade the technology that supports them so we have the right infrastructure to support our business for 2015 and beyond.
In addition to his Cargill responsibilities, Geisler serves on the boards of Holy Family Catholic High School in Victoria, MN and the Malt-O-Meal Company.Geisler graduated from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in June 1978 with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
Webcast Details
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Management Information Systems Research Center
Phone: 612-625-0862
Fax: 612-626-1600
misrc@umn.edu
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