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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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The Function of the Project Management Office (PMO)
Generate Concept¿ Prioritize project in terms of an organization’s overall governance, project portfolio processes ¿ Assist project leaders with business ...
July 01, 2003 — CIO —
Generate Concept
¿ Prioritize project in terms of an organization’s overall governance, project portfolio processes
¿ Assist project leaders with business case development
¿ Ensure the project links to a company’s strategic goals
Plan Resources
¿ Add project to the project management or portfolio system
¿ Assign staff and resources to the project
¿ Lay out governance standards, including repeatable project processes, training and metrics
Launch Project
¿ Provide coaching and mentoring to project managers
¿ Begin to facilitate ongoing project planning sessions
¿ Ensure proper tracking of project data and milestones
Provide Ongoing Project Management
¿ Ensure regular project status reports are available to decision-makers
¿ Coordinate communications across business units
¿ Conduct regular quality assurance reviews
Complete Project
¿ Lead post-implementation reviews
¿ Capture and record lessons learned
¿ Ensure that project data and project team evaluations are recorded and distributed to decision-makers
Source: Bill Stewart of the Project Management Leadership Group
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