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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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Average CIO Tenure Slips But Still More Than Four Years
Average tenure has slipped more than six months since 2007, but CIO job lifespan still exceeds four years.
November 11, 2007 — CIO —
Stuart Scott, whom Microsoft fired as its CIO last week, is below average: He didn't make it halfway to today's typical CIO tenure.
Scott was in the job for two years, but CIO normal tenure these day stands at four years and five months, according to data collected from 558 heads of IT in our 2008 "State of the CIO" survey.
Trends in how long CIOs last might surprise some observers who believe executives turn over quickly in that position. Tenure spiked to five years in 2006 and 2007, according to our annual survey. But taking a longer view, time on the job has been steady since 2003, at just shy of four-and-a-half years.
Average CIO Tenure Since 2003
Average CIO tenure climbed from 2003 to 2007 but dropped in the 2008 State of the CIO poll results. (Data not available for 2005)
| Year | Average Tenure (Years) |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 4.5 |
| 2006 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 4.4 |
Looking at net results over the past three years, the CIOs who have been in their current position a decade or longer decreased in the past year.
Been in the Job Long?
The percentage of respondents who have held their jobs for less than two years has climbed 7 percent since our 2006 survey.
| How Long Have You Been In Your Current Position? | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than 2 years | 2 to 5 years | 5 to 10 years | More than 10 years | |
| 2008 | 31% | 34% | 28% | 7% |
| 2007 | 27% | 33% | 29% | 11% |
| 2006 | 24% | 35% | 31% | 9% |
Full results of the 2008 State of the CIO survey will be released December 15. Between now and then, we are previewing our findings. We've already reported that CIO salaries and influence and rising and that IT efficiency may have little to do with IT budgets.
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