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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.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »October 10, 2008 — IDG News Service —
The dispute between Vodafone and Telkom South Africa over shareholding in Vodacom Group seems to be dying down after the South African government yielded and accepted Vodafone's latest bid.
Vodafone has made a nonbinding proposal to acquire a 15 percent stake in Vodacom Group for a cash consideration of 22.5 billion South African rand (US$2.5 billion), a statement from Vodafone read.
The agreement is subject to the listing and unbundling of Telkom's remaining 35 percent stake in Vodacom to Telkom shareholders.
"The proposed transaction would result in Vodafone owning 65 percent of an attractive asset with strong market positions in South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique and Tanzania," the statement read.
Telkom SA owns 50 percent of Vodacom, and Vodafone owns the other half. At the center of controversy is a shareholder agreement between Telkom and Vodafone that limited expansion in sub-Saharan markets.
Vodafone's cash payment will be reduced slightly, as a portion of Vodacom's debt will be deducted from the purchase price.