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A Peer-Advisory Service and Professional Association for CIOs

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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Winners of the 2008 Ones to Watch Awards

Honoring the next generation of IT leaders and the CIOs who have fostered their talents

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May 02, 2008 — CIO —

Got leaders?

It's a question more and more CIOs are asking themselves as retirement, outsourcing and a shrinking pool of IT talent are converging to push leadership development to the top of the to-do list. Cultivating IT leadership is at the core of the 2008 Ones to Watch awards, presented annually by CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council. Through this award, we recognize the next generation of IT leaders and the CIOs who've fostered their talents and helped them advance up the leadership ladder. And with our Standout Award, we highlight those Ones to Watch winners who have excelled in leading innovation, business strategy, project execution, resource management or organizational change.

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Selection Methodology
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The winning accomplishments of the 20 men and women who make up this year's honorees offer proof positive of the benefits of growing your own take-charge leaders. Most have also been lucky enough to have highly supportive bosses who believe in developing IT talent: 83 percent say their CIO is extremely committed to their development, according to our poll of the winners. (How do you measure up to this group of rising stars? Take this quiz and find out.)

Congratulations to all our winners and to the CIOs who nurtured and then nominated this year's class of leaders. We know you'll do great things in the future.

The 2008 Ones to Watch Winners

Name: Sherry Aaholm
Age: 45
Title: EVP, IT
Company: FedEx Services
Quote: IT has the potential to change commerce. Where innovation and technology are driven by the customer, IT powers business strategy.

Name: Yuri Aguiar
Age: 39
Title: CTO
Company: Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
Quote: My mentor taught me that "unreasonable men get results," to quote George Bernard Shaw. And that only a hand picked and talented team could help a manager reach for the unreasonable and succeed at it.

Name: Joan Albeck
Age: 42
Title: Director, IT Infrastructure
Company: Scottrade
Quote: IT is a wonderful way to improve the lives of people of all ages. Technology is with us today and will be with our children tomorrow.

Name: Leonard Burke
Age: 43
Title: VP, Hotel Technology Services
Company: Hilton Hotels Corp.
Quote: The highlight of my career has been working internationally. This experience has given me a whole new perspective on delivering solutions to a global marketplace.

Name: Elvis Cernjul
Age: 37
Title: Senior Director of Technical Services
Company: Spiegel Brands Inc.
Quote: My mentor taught me how to see things objectively, quickly get to the heart of the matter, and move directly to results.