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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 »January 15, 2004 — CIO —
Individuals had given more than $177 million to the campaigns of President Bush and the eight major Democrats as of Sept. 30, 2003. (See "Where the Candidates Stand," Page 60, for their positions on IT-related issues.) Included in the millions were $2,000 individual donations?individuals are limited to contributions of $2,000 to each candidate in the primary election?from some high-ranking members of the IT industry. Fill in the blanks to match the donors with their candidates. (Note: Not every candidate received money from someone on this list.)
1. Floyd Duane Ackerman, CEO, BellSouth
2. Craig Barrett, CEO, Intel
3. Carly Fiorina, Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard
4. Gary Forsee, Chairman and CEO, Sprint
5. Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft
6. Andrew Grove, Chairman, Intel
7. Jeffrey Heller, President and COO, EDS
8. Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google
A President George W. Bush
B Gen. Wesley Clark of Arkansas
C Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean
D Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina
E Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri
F Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts
G Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut
H Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois
I The Rev. Al Sharpton of New York
1. A, 2. A and G, 3. A, 4. A, 5. A, 6. G, 7. A, 8. E and F
Source: Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org)