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Article: Meeting the New Challenges at West and LexisNexis: Post-SIIA Summit interviews with Michael Wilens and Lisa Mitnick.(Software and Information Industry Association )
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On January 29,2002, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) sponsored a 1-day Information Industry Summit in New York City. Some 200 executives from all types of firms in the information industry attended the program designed to help them in "Meeting the New Challenges."
In his keynote address at the Summit, Michael Wilens, president of West Group, made observations about how the Internet revolution changed information technology and what could be learned from the economic downturn in the information industry last year. In a panel discussion that followed, entitled "Rethinking the Information Company, Gaining from Adversity," Lisa Mitnick, senior ...