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Social Responsibility's Strategic Benefits
December 15, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Ed Granger-Happ, CIO of Save the Children, for a discussion of how creating an organization that is socially responsible improves staffing, retention, leadership development and overall corporate health.
Working With and Communicating to Your Board of Directors
January 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
CIO panelists who will share tips and experiences working with their boards: Twila Day of SYSCO; Jeff O'Hare, West Corp.; Marc West, formerly with H&R Block.
IT's Role in Growing Mid-Market Companies
January 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET (GMT-5)
Mid-market Council members will share their companies' stories and challenges in driving or coping with growth. Panelists represent Veterinary Pet Insurance, Medicis Pharmaceutical, and Intrax Cultural Exchange.
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June 15, 2004 — CIO — 1 Be patient. Enterprise software implementations can’t be rushed and they take time to demonstrate benefits. Nike had the luxury?and good sense?to avoid being driven by hard external deadlines. This enabled it to learn from the mistakes it had made in its i2 project.
2 Define a business goal. Getting software up and running is not a goal; remaking the business is. Nike wanted to take three months out of its sneaker manufacturing cycle. The clarity of its business case sustained the project when things went south in 2000.
3 Reengineer processes. "Blank sheet" reengineering can lead to unrealistic business process designs that can’t be implemented through enterprise software. But deep discussions of how business is conducted can lead to something invaluable: a clear, performance-based goal for the project.
4 Just do it over. When poor integration, inadequate training, unstable software and spotty testing derailed Nike’s i2 project, Nike redoubled its efforts in those areas to avoid similar problems when it began rolling out its fully integrated enterprise software platform.
5 Keep your eye on the prize. Many companies today are trying to consolidate the separate versions of ERP they installed either to beat the Y2K deadline or to satisfy divisional managers. Nike held fast to a single-instance strategy. It added years to the project but will likely save the company money in the end. © 2008 CXO Media Inc.
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