Sharpen the Leadership Saw is a quarterly program offered to all current SIM members and all SIM RLF (Regional Leadership Forum) graduates, who are interested in evolving as a leader. Through facilitated book discussions, this program offers an opportunity to improve a fundamental understanding of leadership, and your own personal brand of it. For those of you who yearn to read, learn from and apply the concepts of leadership-related books, this program may be just the little push you need to make it happen. Join us at the next meeting and reconnect with your fellow SIM members and/or expand your network, “sharpen your saw” and practice continuous learning!

Date: Tuesday, January 24th

Agenda:           4:00 to 4:30 PM             Registration and Networking

4:30 to 5:30 PM             Facilitated Book Discussion

5:30 to 5:45 PM             Select Book and Location for Next Meeting

5:45 to 7:30 PM             Dinner

Book: Giving Back: Connecting You, Business, and Community, by Peter Economy and Bert Berkley

Location: The Marathon Restaurant, 25 Hayward Street, Hopkinton, MA 01748, 508.589.6400

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Venue: Marriott Hotel, Burlington, MA

Speaker: Jay Leader, CIO & VP, iRobot Corporation

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This meeting also features our annual state-of-the-chapter overview presented by the Boston SIM Board of Directors.

Helpdesk Roundtable: December 1, 2011

All Customer Service and Helpdesk Directors and Managers are invited to attend the next Boston SIM Helpdesk Roundtable session on Thursday, December 1st from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be hosted at Management Sciences for Health in Cambridge, MA. Networking will continue over dinner at the Elephant Walk restaurant in Brookline, MA.

The topics for this meeting will be Asset Management and Recruiting staff.

• For the Asset management discussion, we are going to talk about how the different organizations are handling Asset Management.  As we all know, asset management is difficult to get under control as the assets, their locations and dispositions are dynamic.  There are tools, but they some of them are difficult to administer (SCCM), while others don’t gather the correct level of detail needed. Any materials (ie spreadsheets) that can be shared will be very helpful in furthering the discussion.
• The Recruiting staff discussion is the one we didn’t get to at the last meeting. Right now the job market is interesting, there are a lot of people looking, but how do you weed through the resumes and find the right person? Do recruiting agencies help? What about promotion from within?

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2011 Boston CIO Executive Summit

November 30, 2011 | The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers

The Boston CIO Executive Summit is the most significant gathering of enterprise CIOs in the region. This one-day conference built “by CIOs, for CIOs” is designed to provide a peer-to-peer experience that centers on actionable relevance for pressing technology and leadership issues. The purpose is to provide a collaborative forum for the top CIOs.

A Governing Body from the area’s largest organizations drives all aspects of the agenda to ensure a relevant, educational and networking experience. All session content and speakers are selected through an exclusive nomination process and are designed for enterprise organizations.

Content is focused on best practices and knowledge sharing. This approach provides a unique opportunity for CIOs to share their insights and experiences in a format designed to deliver access, insights, networking and collaboration.

For more information please visit 2011 Boston CIO Executive Summit or contact the Program Director, Colby White at 503-972-4442 or colby.white@evanta.com.

Boston SIM Silver is an organization dedicated to members who are approaching traditional retirement by assessing, planning, evaluating and discussing the transition from their professional careers to a new stage of life.

The goals of SIM Silver are to:

1. Facilitate discussion in the transition to a post professional career stage of life.
2. Provide a forum for helping its members conduct an assessment of their life in preparation for a post professional career stage.
3. Provide a forum to review and assist its members in developing a post professional career plan.
4. Share its members’ experiences as a method to gain insight into a variety of struggles, setbacks and successes in a transition.
5. Facilitate a social network of post professional career Boston SIM members.

Membership in SIM Silver is voluntary and defined as first being or having been an active member of SIM and currently a member in good standing. Those wishing to participate will contact the Boston SIM Chapter Administrator to be placed on the SIM Silver mailing list. Meetings are conducted 4 to 6 times a year.

In addition to meetings, SIM Silver has a collaborative web-site where members can share information, ideas, and thoughts. Relevant information from a variety of sources are available at that site. For more information, contact the Boston SIM Silver facilitator, Les Ball, at lesballscituate@gmail.com.

Registration

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