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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 19, 2006 — CIO —
Thanks to the reader who informed me that Fred Matteson (pictured at left), SVP and CIO of Fireman’s Fund, has left that company. (A PR person with Fireman’s Fund confirmed that Matteson, who joined the company at the end of 2003, is no longer an employee.) His last day was Monday, January 16. Fireman’s Fund has not yet named a replacement.
CIO honored Fireman’s Fund this year with a CIO-100 award for the insurance company’s effort to transform its business. During 2005, Matteson took steps to implement a service oriented architecture which included outsourcing a portion of his IT department to IBM so that he could focus his internal staff’s efforts on high-value projects rather than maintenance of legacy systems.