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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 »June 23, 2006 — CIO —
EMC will open a software development center in Shanghai and invest US$500 million in China over the next five years, the company announced Friday.
The center is part of EMC’s $1.2 billion investment in global research and development, although the company didn’t specify the cost of the Shanghai facility. The software center will employ 100 people by the end of the year, and 500 people by 2008, EMC said.
The storage vendor is hedging its offshoring bets in Asia. On Wednesday it announced a similar investment in India of $500 million by 2010, and said it would double its staff there, to 1,600, over the same period.
While India has been the primary choice for software development offshoring in Asia, a talent shortage and rising costs have driven many companies to look elsewhere. Even Indian companies are now sending contract work to other Asian nations, including China and Vietnam.
-Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau)
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