OC CIO Minutes November 8, 2012

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

November 8, 2012 meeting

 

Present:        Joe Desuta, Sean Brown, Jim Sutter, Jeff Reid, Keith Golden, Jeff Hecht, Dave Phillips

 

The following is a list of topics and speakers through January:

 

12/13/12       Branding and Marketing IT                      Joel Manfredo

1/10/13         Controlling Project Costs                        Jon Grunzweig

 

Topic:          Google Apps - Revisited

 

We thanked Joe for giving us an update on Google Apps, which he presented 12 months ago, and a progress report on his implementation projects.  To remind you, Google Apps is Cloud based email (Gmail), productivity tools and collaboration software. At this time, Gmail has about 1% of the total market share of email, but 50% of the cloud-based email. Slides 4 and 5 list the various tools, reliability SLA and costs.  Now the battle is between Gmail vs Office 365. Over 4M businesses have gone Google (see slides 9, 10 and 11). 

Joe then gave us an update on his implementation projects.  First Team is a full service real estate co., founded in 1976, #1 independent in OC, 40 locations, 2,000 employees and agents.  They had a good business case for going Google – email reliability, cost justification by forgoing upgrades, leverage Google Apps for productivity gains and competitive advantage.  Migration is in progress with about 1500 users migrated so far. Switching emails is transformational – many users already familiar with Gmail, which is much better than OWA.  Google Apps enables collaboration on several levels.  Migration is harder than it should have been.  Reliability and security have been achieved.  Lesson learned - don’t skip on training.  All In all, Google has been the right bet for First Team.  It should merit consideration for a cloud-based solution.  We recommend that you read Joe’s slides for more detail. They are posted at:  http://www.slideshare.net/occio

 

OC CIO Minutes October 11, 2012

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

 

Present:        Ken Wechsler, David Mann, William Zauner, Jon Grunzweig, Jim Sutter, Joe Desuta, Dave Phillips

 

The following is a list of topics and speakers through January:

 

11/8/12      Google Apps Update                Joe Desuta

12/13/12    Branding and Marketing IT       Joel Manfredo

1/10/13      Controlling Project Costs          Jon Grunzweig

Topic:          Compensation trends

We welcomed Ken Wechsler to our meeting and thanked him for driving up from San Diego early in the morning, in wet weather, to talk about compensation trends.  He started with US forecasts of GDP and unemployment rates, which look to be improving slowly, as do the stock prices. Hiring trends are up, and voluntary turnover is rapidly increasing in San Diego, the Bay Area and in the US in general. In the Life Sciences and Technology overall salary budgets are increasing, and most companies are expecting to pay cash bonuses in 2012.  He shared with us details on individual payouts by level.  Equity strategies include a mix of stock options and RSUs (restricted stock units) as a retention incentive.  He had several slides on the mix of equity vehicle usage and cash by position and level.  His slides on CIO compensation and trends were very interesting, especially the one by organization size:

 

CIO Compensation – By Organization Size

Compensation packages varies significantly by the size of the organization.

 

Component / Org. Size	< $200M	$200M - $1B	> $1B
Base Salary	$208K	$245K	$300K
Target Bonus	30%	35%	50%
Target Total Cash	$254K	$325K	$462K
Annual Equity Grant	$56K	$131K	$177K
Total Direct Comp.	$260K	$458K	$641K

 

Interesting information!  The whole presentation was very interesting and we thanked Ken for taking the time and making the effort to attend our breakfast meeting.  His slides can be found at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio