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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »September 12, 2005 — CIO —
Ameritrade appears to have a strong succession planning process in place: Last Friday, Ameritrade announced who would succeed Asiff Hirji, who was promoted from CIO to COO last month following the resignation of Peter Ricketts, and the online brokerage didn’t go outside the company to find Hirji’s successor. Ameritrade appointed its Vice President of Application Development and Quality Assurance, Jerry Bartlett, as its new CIO.
Procter & Gamble’s former Deputy CIO Geoff Smith was elected to the board of directors of WindsorTech, a technology services company that does business as QSGI. Since he left P&G in 2004, Smith founded LP Enterprises LLC, an IT strategy and CRM consultancy. While at P&G, Smith was responsible for IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and evaluating advanced technologies. From 1997 to 2002, he led the development of P&G’s customer and consumer-facing e-business solutions. Check out an article Smith penned for CIO in November 2004 called You Can’t Outsource Everything.
Zurich Financial Services hired Mike Daly as its Australian CIO.