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CIO Executive Council

A Peer-Advisory Service and Professional Association for CIOs

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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Integration Lessons Learned from BP, Equifax, JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Canada and Waste Management

BPM&A history: The British Petroleum and Amoco merger in 1998 was the largest industrial merger in history.Integration insight: After wasting ...

BP

M&A history: The British Petroleum and Amoco merger in 1998 was the largest industrial merger in history.

Integration insight: After wasting three months struggling to agree on everything, BP?the larger of the two companies?finally decided to use its systems as the default, keeping only Amoco’s SAP system.

Equifax

M&A history: Frequently acquires small credit companies.

Integration insight: CIO Owen Flynn looks for cultural differences between Equifax and the company it is acquiring, and suggests that they might be an early warning that there will be problems integrating the systems.

J.P. Morgan Chase

M&A history: A product of the 2001 merger between financial giants J.P. Morgan and Chase Manhattan.

Integration insight: There was one person in charge of the project who was able to make quick decisions to help speed along the integration. The companies ended up defaulting to the Chase systems.

Royal Bank Of Canada

M&A history: Royal Bank acquired Centura Bank in 2001.

Integration insight: CIO Martin Lippert says you aren’t just acquiring a company but its intellectual assets as well, and he suggests that you pick and choose from the other company the systems that can help your business.

Waste Management

M&A history: Product of the 1998 merger between Waste USA and Waste Management.

Integration insight: Proved (the hard way) that you need to understand the relationship between a scalable architecture and successful integration. The inability to recognize that before the merger ultimately led to the removal of the entire executive team.