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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 »October 01, 2005 — CIO —
Two pieces of decades-old law govern e-waste: the so-called Superfund legislation and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
It’s unclear how forcefully governments enforce these laws in terms of e-waste. Most stories of companies getting fined are anecdotal. In one study, Gartner suggests that one corporation paid a $200,000 fine for improper disposal, but doesn’t get more specific than that. A disposition company, Green-Tech Assets, warns that the Environmental Protection Agency can levy fines of $15,000 per incident and $25,000 per day for improper disposal. But Jim Lynch, program manager for CompuMentor, a nonprofit computer recycling and reuse center, believes fines are rare and enforcement spotty at best. "Ask around and you never get a straight answer," he says.
That could be changing. Laws specifically targeting e-waste are being enacted now, with more on the way. Although many are consumer-focused, some will target corporate e-waste. One of the toughest laws, called the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE), went into effect in Europe in August.