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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 »January 06, 2006 — CIO —
The San Francisco Business Times reported yesterday that John Hummel (pictured at left) is leaving his post as CIO of Sutter Health to join Perot Systems. Hummel, who’s 52, has worked for Sutter since 1998. He made his move in order to spend more time with his vivacious wife of 30+ years, Ruth Ann, and his five adult children and five grandchildren. Hummel, whom I interviewed for a profile that ran in the May 1, 2005 issue, has functioned as a workaholic for most (if not all) of his career. While working for Sutter, he told me he lived out of hotels two to three days a week in order to cut down on the amount of Bay area traffic he would otherwise have to battle.
Having met this down-to-earth and accomplished IT executive first hand, I can say that Hummel’s move is a great loss for Sutter and a valuable gain for Perot. After all, How could you not like a guy who wears Donald Duck neckties?