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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.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »January 20, 2006 — CIO —
Today, a Hewlett-Packard source that requested anonymity squashed recent rumors about a possible acquisition of Computer Science Corp. (CSC), CNET reports.
CSC, an IT consultancy, has been named as a potential acquisition target by The Blackstone Group, and HP allegedly showed interest in purchasing a minority stake in the in CSC, according to various media reports released in early January.
"CSC has occasionally come up from time to time as a potential acquisition, but it’s nothing that we ever seriously pursued and nothing we were in talks with recently," the anonymous source said, according to CNET.
HP is no fresh fish in the acquisition game. In 2001, the company was in talks with PricewaterhouseCoopers to acquire the firm for $18 billion in cash and stock, but the deal fell through due to disagreements concerning the pricing structure and the partnership in general. Two years later, PricewaterhouseCoopers sold its consulting division to HP’s biggest rival, IBM.
In the past, both HP and CSC have declined comment on a potential acquisition.
--Al Sacco