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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
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Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
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Point, Counterpoint: Are Customer References Ethical?
Ethics (or the lack of it) in corporate America has become a daily drumbeat in the news. Financial giants such ...
February 01, 2004 — CIO —
Ethics (or the lack of it) in corporate America has become a daily drumbeat in the news. Financial giants such as Citigroup and Merrill Lynch are being investigated for helping Enron (and now Parmalat) assemble their pyramid schemes. Mutual fund companies are being investigated for market timing practices. Business journalists are increasingly alert to the relationships Wall Street analysts have with the companies they rate. But the quid pro quo of customer references, wherein technology vendors provide discounts and preferential treatment to CIOs in return for good reviews, remains a flourishing practice.
Is this wise? Are there ways to get special consideration without crossing ethical boundaries?
Robert Urwiler, CIO of software company Macromedia, maintains that customer reference arrangements can be beneficial to all parties as long as certain rules are followed. Jerry Gregoire, former CIO of Dell and PepsiCo, disagrees, arguing that there’s never a good reason to be a poster child in exchange for preferential treatment.
Which argument do you buy?
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