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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 18, 2006 — CIO —
Thanks to the reader who filled me in on this news: Karl Taylor has left CVS. (Taylor’s bio and photo remain on CVS’s web site.) Taylor had served as the Woonsocket, R.I.-based drug store chain’s CIO since July 2002. Jon Roberts is the new SVP and CIO.
William Wied joined Electronic Clearing House (ECHO) as its new CIO. He succeeds Steven Smith, who joined the company in November 2004 as CIO. Wied comes to the Camarillo, Calif.-based provider of electronic payment and transaction processing services from TransCore in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, he served as director of software technology. Previously, he was vice president of engineering at one of TransCore’s divisions, CarrierPoint.
Claims management provider Broadspire hired Patrick Funck as its SVP and CIO. He most recently worked for CNA as its VP of information technology in charge of underwriting and claim initiatives.
Harvey Leffring was named DeVry’s new CIO. He replaces James Ritchey, a consultant with Delta Initiative who had been serving as the education company’s interim CIO since its previous CIO, Bruno LaCaria, retired at the end of 2004. Leffring, who reports to DeVry’s President and COO Daniel Hamburger, most recently served as CIO and VP of IT at Siegel Robert Automotive.