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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.
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Effective IT Governance Mechanisms
Governance mechanismRating: 1-5 1 (ineffective) to 5 (highly effective)DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURESBusiness/IT relationship managers ...
June 15, 2004 — CIO —
1 (ineffective) to 5 (highly effective)
| DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURES | Rating |
| Business/IT relationship managers | 3.9 |
| IT leadership committee comprising IT executives | 3.8 |
| IT council comprising business and IT executives | 3.7 |
| Executive or senior management committee | 3.5 |
| Process teams with IT members | 3.4 |
| Architecture committee | 3.1 |
| Capital approval committee | 3.1 |
| ALIGNMENT PROCESSES | Rating |
| Tracking of IT projects and resources consumed | 3.4 |
| Service-level agreements | 3.2 |
| Formally tracking business value of IT | 2.9 |
| Chargeback arrangements | 2.8 |
| COMMUNICATION APPROACHES | Rating |
| Office of CIO or officer of IT governance | 3.6 |
| Work with managers when they fail to follow the rules | 3.2 |
| Announcements from senior management | 2.9 |
| Web-based portals and intranets for IT | 2.9 |
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