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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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SEC Chairman Cox: Sarbox Modifications Will Help Firms
Christopher Cox, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Thursday told attendees at a London international securities regulators ...
November 17, 2006 — CIO —
Christopher Cox, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Thursday told attendees at a London international securities regulators event that upcoming modifications to the controversial Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbox) will be significant, and they’ll be meant to reduce associated costs to businesses while continuing to protect investors, the Associated Press reports via Boston.com.
Critics of the antifraud law have blasted it in recent days, saying the act is difficult to work with and the costs of compliance are too high. Just last week, Alan Greenspan, former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, criticized Sarbox at an AMR Research leadership event in Boston.
Cox and four other SEC commissioners are expected to officially announce the rule modifications on Dec. 13 at a public meeting, according to the AP. Cox said at the London event that the SEC “will unveil significant changes” to Sarbox in relation to how firms document and prove their internal financial controls and how they address and correct associated issues, the AP reports.
“Those changes will be aimed at ensuring that the internal-control audit is top-down, risk-based, and focused on what truly matters to the integrity of a company’s financial statements,” Cox said, according to the AP.
Cox recently sent a letter to the independent oversight group for the financial industry requesting that it tailor its auditing rules to companies of all different sizes, and an SEC-appointed advisory committee last spring suggested that small firms shouldn’t have to comply with the internal-controls regulation, the AP reports. Though the SEC did not adopt the suggested change, it did say it would modify the way companies have to comply with act, and said it would offer guidance to different sized firms to help with the process, according to the AP.
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