Deere & Company.
Deere & Company, Moline Moline (mōlēn`), city (1990 pop. 43,202), Rock Island co., NW Ill., on the Mississippi River, in a coal area; inc. 1848. It is a transportation and industrial center, and has been a major producer of farm machinery since the industrialist John , Ill., named its first chief information officer in history when Kirk E. Siefkas was appointed CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. and corporate vice president. Siefkas had been vice president, e-Business (Electronic-BUSINESS) Doing business online. The term is often used synonymously with e-commerce, but e-business is more of an umbrella term for having a presence on the Web. . Siefkas joined Deere in January 2001, after seven years as co-founder and managing partner at DiamondCluster International.
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