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Mid-Market CIO Panel: Tips and Techniques for Improving Vendor Relationships
July 15, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM U.S./Eastern (GMT-4)
We'll highlight relationship priorities and best practices identified in a Council study, and we'll interact with a CIO panel on the approaches they've used to improve strategic vendor partnerships.
Secrets of Successful Vendor Contract Negotiations for the Mid-Market
Sept. 10, 2009, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM U.S./Eastern (GMT-4)
On this free public Council teleconference, Matthew A. Karlyn, attorney at Foley & Lardner in Boston, will share tips on negotiating tactics and new, creative contract terms to help mid-market CIOs make better deals.
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May 10, 2005 — CIO —
F. Warren McFarlan (Baker Foundation Professor & H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, Harvard Business School) is something of a dean of CIO conferences and an often-quoted voice in CIO Magazine. So it seems only fitting that he should kick off CIO’s first conference in Cambridge, literally across the river from the venerable halls of HBS. Drawing from his 48 years of studying IT, McFarlan literally rolled up his shirtsleeves and shared, in his trademark intense, yet self-effacingly humorous style, his perspective on what has stayed the same, and what’s different, in IT.
What has stayed the same?
What has changed? Almost everything, and he noted the following major changes in IT: