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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.
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July 15, 2006 — CIO —
1. The newspaper test. Which plan of action for dealing with a problem is going to work best if it’s going to appear on the front page of your local paper tomorrow? “That’s a way of picking up on all the consequences of your act,” Badaracco says.
2. The Golden Rule test. “There are a lot of different groups who believe that they have the right to have corporate officers and companies obey the law. There are the vast majority of people in most organizations who believe they have the right to be treated fairly and honestly by the people they’re working for. And there are the owners of a business who have a right to stable, growing, risk-adjusted, legal returns,” Badaracco says. “The Native American advice is to walk a mile in another person’s shoes. That’s a way of picking up on other people’s rights that you may be overlooking, because you’re under pressure to get a decision done.”
3. The best-friend test. “Ask yourself how you would like somebody who knows you well, and whose respect matters to you, to think about your decision,” he says. “That’s a way of putting a spotlight on your character [and] the character of the organization you’re trying to shape.”
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