Michael Capellas was appointed CEO of First Data, the Denver-based electronic payment solutions provider announced Tuesday. Capellas will assume his new role once First Data is acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which is expected by the end of the third quarter of 2007.
You've coded databases, run the help desk and managed multimillion-dollar software implementations. You've paid your dues and climbed your way into the CIO post. Now you're ready to set your company's IT strategy, hobnob with the board of directors and explain to the market how the new business intelligence platform you're rolling out will help boost earnings per share. Right?
Has this happened to you? You're headed to a meeting with your boss, and when you reach his office, you find the corporate attorney and/or HR director with him. The next thing you know, the tag team is telling you: "We no longer need your services", and they're ushering you out the door.
Can this relationship be saved? That was one of the questions in the mind of Mike Hmel, FedEx Ground's senior vice president of IT and CIO, as he prepared for a meeting with Sun Microsystems.
John Halamka has a penchant for experiments with new technologies. In 2004, the now 44-year-old CIO of the Harvard Medical School and CareGroup, which runs the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, who is also a practicing emergency room physician, was one of the first people to have an RFID chip containing a link to his medical records implanted in his body (it's near his right triceps.) In April, he and Harvard geneticist George Church will become the first humans to have their DNA sequenced and their full genetic makeup posted on the Web.
In the 1990s, Michael Hammer and James Champy's blockbuster book, <i>Reengineering the Corporation</i>, set off a tidal wave of business process improvement initiatives throughout the corporate world.
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