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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 »June 01, 2001 — CIO —
So you’re just back from a conference? Who’d you see? No, no, I don’t mean other CIOs, industry experts or inspirational gurus?I mean, who played?
If you went to Sapphire, SAP’s user conference, last year you could have seen rockers Lenny Kravitz and Sheryl Crow, and last year’s InformationWeek conference featured Jay Leno. This year those conferences featured Aerosmith and David Spade, respectively. Dana Carvey made an appearance at CTIA Wireless in February, and Jerry Lee Lewis’s son wowed CXO Media’s own Enterprise Value Retreat in January by playing piano with his knees, elbows and toes. In March Ray Charles entertained a Fortune conference, and surf music king Dick Dale rocked a wireless conference.
So you might want to rethink your criteria for choosing conferences to attend. But be prepared. As one participant from last year’s Sapphire said, "Lenny was great, but it was kind of disturbing when he started to yell, ’SAP in da house, y’all.’"