Free Technology – Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth?
Date: Tuesday, October 23rd
Time: Registration at 11:45am, Lunch 12:00, Speakers 12:30 – 1:30pm
Place: Sutton Place Hotel
Fee: $45 for Members, $60 for Non-members
Free Technology – Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth?
While Open Source Technology continues to garner interest among industry executives many organizations remain conflicted. Is it superior technology whose time is now? or are the cost savings ephemeral?
Join us as a panel of advocates discuss their various positions and help you decipher if you are “Getting your money’s worth?”
To register, and for more information about the CIO Association of Canada – Vancouver Chapter and our events, please contact our administrator, Lisa Bateman at 604-461-0246 or at admin@ciocan-vancouver.ca.
This October luncheon is sponsored by IBM Canada.
*Upcoming Topic for November 28 – “Predicting the Success of Your IT Projects”
The data on information systems projects almost speaks for itself. Although improved from the 1994 survey, the 2004 Standish Group (www.standishgroup.com) survey on information technology projects found that only 34% could be considered a success (on time, on budget and delivering the desired benefits), 51% were “challenged” (delivered late, exceeded their budget or lacked critical features and requirements), and a full 15% were out and out failures.
Improve your organization's success with IT-enabled business transformation as an international team from Oxford and Simon Fraser University discuss the results and implications of their research on the factors that lead to project success and failure and how project size, knowledge resources and management practices impact project performance
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