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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.
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Seven Highly Effective Ways to Kill Innovation (and Seven to Make Sure You Don't)
Innovation doesn't just happen, it comes from careful tending of creative teams. Find out if you or your company is guilty of squashing good ideas and their growth.
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Innovation killer # 6: Hand over the good ideas to the
Legal and Accounting departments.
Ideas are fragile, easily broken or squashed. On the surface,
giving the care of those ideas to Legal or Accounting may make
sense, since one of the greatest issues with inventions are
legal ones. And there are financial considerations as well.
But those with the most influence over the idea process must be the innovation champions, and that emphasis must come from the top, says Koulopoulos. CIO magazine’s own research bears this out. At 61 percent, the highest-scoring critical ingredient of an innovative culture was innovation-focused leadership, according to CIO’s survey of 2007 CIO 100 winners. (Winners are chosen for innovations in IT that have transformed the company.)
Innovation tip: Create support and ownership for innovation at management’s uppermost tiers.Next: What risks are acceptable?
The Innovation Quotient
Infrastructures for Innovation
eBook: Enterprise Management Flyover
White Paper: Innovation and IT
What Every CIO Needs to Know About Search
Exchange 2007 Risks and Mitigation Strategies
The Innovation Quotient
Extending Client Refresh - 11 Steps to Maximize Savings
CIOs Weigh In On Virtualization
Jim Malone, Editorial Director of CXO Media's C...
Beyond Installing ITPM Software: How a global company reduced risk and successfully implemented ITPM
IT Consolidation Made Easy
Taking a Seat at the Executive Table: The Reality of Virtualization
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10 Free Downloads for Your Laptop
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Is Federal Stimulus Money Being Used for IT Hardware, Not Hiring?
