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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.
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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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