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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
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.