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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 »April 28, 2009 — CIO —
While the economy continues to beat down on us like a 10,000-pound hammer, I am still a "glass half full" kind of guy, truly amazed by the technology innovations being announced on a daily basis. What further propels my optimism is this recent finding reported in a Computing Research Association study: The number of computer science majors enrolled in the U.S. increased for the first time in SIX years! Let's hear a round of cheers that total enrollment in computer science classes is up 6.2 percent. Maybe it's early to say tech is cool again with college students, but here are a few recent press clippings that I saved. Tell me this isn't cool stuff!
Whether it's Wayback Machines, insurance-tracking traffic lights or mosquito-whacking lasers, the uplifting thought here is that even in a tough economy, people are still turning to technology and science to better the world and drive business value. That's cool enough for me any day.