As CIO of Salesforce.com, Kirsten Wolberg leads the IT organization responsible for building and maintaining the global technology infrastructure and business applications for all employees and business units. Salesforce.com has a strong company culture and makes on-boarding a priority. For Wolberg, hiring the right talent and getting them productive quickly is key to delivering technology services to this rapidly growing, global company.Why is on-boarding important at Salesforce.com?It's critical that IT partner with human resources to create best practices that ensure an employee is up to speed as quickly as possible. To be truly effective, on-boarding must start the minute a new employee signs the offer letter.Salesforce.com has three streams that can continue for six months and beyond. The first is getting the new employee the technology they need to do their job. IT gets a new-hire ticket and, depending on the hire's role, provisions them with the appropriate equipment. At Salesforce.com, employees have a choice. They can have a Mac or a PC; a Blackberry or an iPhone. We want them productive as soon as possible, and that means letting them use the technology they are most familiar with.