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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 »May 15, 2001 — CIO —
On Monday morning, you’ve got to face the CFO and defend your budget. It would sure help if you could argue that past IT expenditures have increased the productivity of your company before you explain why your budget should go up this year. n Well-prepared is well-armed, so here CIO presents two sides of the heated productivity debate. You can quote Edward Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown, to prove that investing in IT does enhance the productivity of your workers and will continue to do so. And you’ll be prepared for those pesty counterarguments by reading the perspective of Robert J. Gordon, the Stanley G. Harris professor in social sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.