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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 »October 26, 2007 — CIO —
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That's the percentage of CEOs who say society wants companies to take on greater public responsibility than five years ago, according to a McKinsey & Co. survey of 391 CEOs (PDF format) at companies in 23 industries on six continents.
The public, McKinsey found, wants companies to be involved in such causes as keeping the food supply safe and increasing the healthfulness of food, building in ways that are environmentally sustainable and helping curb the spread of HIV/AIDS.
It all boils down to trust. Customers increasingly say they need to trust a company before buying products and services, McKinsey says. Companies, therefore, needs to grow and keep their reputation as trustworthy.
IT leaders can either help that cause or blow it: TJX's stolen customer credit card data, Gap's breach of personal data on 800,000 job applicants, and TD Ameritrade's hacked database of information on 6.3 million customers all show the downside of a tarnished reputation.
Your company can be curing AIDS, stopping child labor, inventing the world’s first no-emissions vehicle and all sorts of other noble things. But if you expose your customers’ information, if you don’t protect it, there goes your image.