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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 »October 15, 2002 — CIO —
CIOs who are still struggling to get their company to invest in e-business systems have a new line of argument: Doing business online can keep executives out of jail. New Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules against corporate fraud give large public companies less time to report key information to investors. Theoretically, at least, companies that keep their most important records in electronic form will find it easier to comply with the government’s requirements.
The rules require companies to file their 8K forms disclosing material events within two days of a major transaction, such as the sale or purchase of a major asset or the cancellation of business with a key customer. Currently, companies have at least five business days to file such reports.
The SEC believes that two days will give dishonest executives less time to hide their misdeeds. But honest companies will be forced to scramble to enter data about paper-based transactions into the systems that generate their financial reports. Without that data, the reports won’t be accurate, and if CEOs approve inaccurate reports, they’re supposed to go to jail.
Unfortunately, hardly any company has entirely eliminated paper. According to a recent study by Plano, Texas-based management consultancy A.T. Kearney, only 11 percent of companies’ total spending is documented electronically at the time of the transaction.
But the new rules will force companies to report even a glitch in the supply chain, such as a major supplier running out of inventory, if it affects production. That’s a problem A.T. Kearney contends most companies don’t have the technology to spot.
Jim Walker, senior analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, says that eventually, vendors will sell audit applications that compile financial and transactional information for disclosure reports from e-business systems. But before CIOs can deploy it, they must have more data available electronically.
The message?that investing in e-business systems can help the bottom line?is an old one. Now there’s an argument that’s easy to understand.
-Ben Worthen
The congressional Internet Caucus boasts almost 200 members, but only a few of them get their hands dirty making IT policy. What makes a tech-savvy representative or senator? He or she has learned how IT works. Of the approximately 400 House members and 31 senators running for reelection on Nov. 5, here are three that are IT experts.
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) First elected in 1994, Davis was once vice president and general counsel at McLean, Va.-based systems integrator PRC, and his suburban Washington, D.C., district is home to numerous federal IT contractors. He knows government agency information systems and information security. He chairs the Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy. Davis has sponsored bills to promote e-commerce standards and improve IT worker training.