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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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August 15, 2001 — CIO —
| 1906 | Founded as Cementos Hidalgo. |
| 1931 | The company’s production plants in Hidalgo and Monterrey, Mexico, come together to form Cementos Mexicanos, or Cemex. |
| 1976 | Goes public on the Mexican stock exchange; now has eight plants. |
| 1984 | Lorenzo Zambrano becomes CEO. |
| 1989 | Initiates Cemexnet program, which links all of its production plants via satellite. |
| 1992 | Goes international by acquiring Spain’s top two cement companies. |
| 1993 | Installs a logistics system called Dynamic Synchronization of Operations, which links each delivery truck with a central command center. |
| 1994 | Expands into Venezuela. |
| 1998 | Installs its digital global initiative, connecting offices around the world via satellite and a corporate portal. |
| 1999 | Company now has plants and operations in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Panama and the Philippines. |
| 1999 | Opens on the New York Stock Exchange. |
| 2000 | Launches CXNetworks, an IT subsidiary. |
| 2000 | Cemex and four other Latin American IT companies form Neoris, an e-consultancy focusing on Latin America and Europe. |
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