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CIO Executive Council

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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How 9/11 Changed IT

Stories from CIO.com's coverage of 9/11 and its aftermath in business and government reflect changes in thinking and priorities on business continuity and communications.

NYPD New

Deputy Commissioner and CIO Jim Onalfo put his experience and discipline to the test in order to turn around IT at the NYPD.

A Failure to Communicate at the NYPD

Events such as 9/11 show that communications are key to successful disaster recovery.

Inside the CIA's Extreme Technology Makeover

Al Tarasiuk, the CIA's CIO, is on a mission to modernize the agency's IT practices and connections to the intelligence community. It's just like any other IT-business alignment project, except that he has to get disparate departments to share data while supporting the White House's war on terror.

IT Executives From Three Wall Street Companies Look Back on 9/11 and Take Stock of Where They Are Now

One year after 9/11, CIO visited with the CIOs of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and American Express who were affected by the terrorist attacks to see what had changed and how their organizations had recovered.

9/11: IT Security Then and Now (2006)

The United States government devoted more resources to bolster its information security programs, but critics on the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks cited evidence of only limited success.