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  • Embrace your dormant skills and abilities

    Posted December 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm

    As you grow professionally you will find the need to learn new skills. Some of these skills, of course, will be technical in nature. Other skills, however, may be totally outside your technical areas of expertise.

  • Stop insider data thieves: Forget profiling, keep an eye on the grumps

    Posted December 8, 2011 - 12:20 pm

    Insider data theft isn't sudden or impulsive according to a new study. Disgruntled techies who think the company is persecuting them, stealing their ideas and are badly mishandled by managers who don't see a problem or overreact when one arises make a volatile combination.

  • Facebook’s fake friends epidemic

    Posted June 28, 2011 - 11:30 am

    A few weeks ago I got a Facebook friend request from a cute young blonde thing named Marjorie. I did not know Marjorie from Adam, but she was certainly enthusiastic about friending me. She even initiated a chat session before I had a chance to respond.

  • Survey shows IT still focused on the wrong issues about cloud

    Posted June 24, 2011 - 2:29 pm

    Surveys differ on whether cost or flexibility is the main driver behind cloud adoption, when the real reason for it is to stay ahead of end users who are adopting it whether IT wants them to or not.

  • Cloud isn't making IT irrelevant; IT is doing that itself

    Posted June 21, 2011 - 11:31 am

    Let users avoid internal IT; they'll still have to deal with IT at a SAAS or cloud provider, and halve less leverage to get what they want, one reader commented. Yep,and whose fault is that?

  • Competition crowns nation's funniest compliance officer

    Posted June 15, 2011 - 10:53 am

    Recruiter Howard-Sloan crowned a pharma exec nation's funniest compliance officer after a competition pitting the standup of six of the most hilarious stewards of corporate governance.

  • Gartner thinks you should play more games at work

    Posted May 5, 2011 - 11:00 pm

    Gartner predicts half of all organizations responsible for innovation will use "gamification" as a way to encourage fresh ideas and teamwork. What the heck,it worked on the playground.

  • Failure to see eye-to-eye with users about cloud could mean tough times for IT

    Posted April 15, 2011 - 10:58 am

    Cloud computing looks like a perfect, low-cost IT solution, at least to business managers, who are increasingly unhappy with IT for not giving them what they want, Accenture report shows.

  • Salary survey shows IT losing money, respect, and career prospects

    Posted April 5, 2011 - 12:41 pm

    Levels of dissatisfaction are rising, along with the pressure to do more with less, and the number of colleagues getting raises while most others do not.

  • Stewardship, not ownership: IT needs to give up on control

    Posted March 28, 2011 - 3:02 pm

    "Improvisation is too good to leave to chance," said singer Paul Simon. It's a lesson that IT needs to learn and, more important, act on.

  • Lies my vendor told me: Tech relationships gone wrong

    Posted March 25, 2011 - 1:08 pm

    Three years ago, a luxury retailer with a growing online business faced a nightmare situation: The order fulfillment service provided by its SaaS vendor for online transactions went down for two days during the critical Christmas season. The retailer's website couldn't accept orders for a 48-hour period, resulting in frustrated customers and lost business.

  • 5 reasons why CIOs can't ignore consumerization of IT

    Posted March 1, 2011 - 1:42 pm

    Social media's emergence as a key business app is just one of the trends that have led to a point of no return on consumer IT. Dell's Paul D'Arcy explains -- and shares how CIOs can plan for and benefit from the consumerization of IT.

  • Consumerization of IT - good, bad, or just the way things are now?

    Posted February 24, 2011 - 5:15 pm

    Consumer technology has become a staple in today's workplace. Android phones, iPad, netbooks, social media - you name it. Managing these technologies is part of IT's responsibilities today and it isn't easy to say whether this shift has been overall good or bad for IT departments.

  • Pay no attention to that widget recording your every move

    Posted February 24, 2011 - 1:43 pm

    Ever wonder how much of a time suck Bejeweled is? Or how often your legitimate work-related research on the Web deteriorates into recreational browsing? Now there is software that will tell not only you, but also your boss and your coworkers.

  • 7 Things CEOs want in a CIO

    Posted February 23, 2011 - 1:02 pm

    CEOs know IT can be a rocket boosting a good business, or a rock holding it down. They know what they want in a CIO, but you probably don't.

  • IT leaders must give CEOs bad news the way doctors deliver colonoscopy results

    Posted February 22, 2011 - 3:09 pm

    Harvard Business Review columnist and computer information systems professor Robert Plant proposes a "system for speaking IT truths to CEOs."

  • Goodbye outsourcing, hello insourcing: A trend rises

    Posted February 17, 2011 - 5:48 pm

    Looking back on the last twelve months, most outsourcing analysts agree that the level of IT services deals sealed has held relatively steady, year-over-year. The total value of outsourcing contracts signed in 2010 was $62.4 billion, according to outsourcing consultancy TPI, a figure that's pretty consistent with their last five years of total contract value data. The number of IT services deals inked in 2010 grew by six percent, according to outsourcing consultancy Everest, noting that eight of them were so-called mega-deals of $1 billion or more. About half of IT service providers polled by outsourcing consultancy EquaTerra reported growth in their business pipeline, despite expectations for a much stronger year-end close. Deal flow was uneven in the fourth quarter, EquaTerra reported, and subject to delays.

  • Cool third-party cloud security apps miss one big problem

    Posted February 16, 2011 - 12:51 pm

    Third-party security and management tools make cloud computing easier; they don't make organizational or policy issues easier to overcome.

  • IT departments still cautious about personal mobile devices

    Posted February 10, 2011 - 2:07 pm

    Despite the growing number of employees using personal mobile devices to connect to the corporate network, IT departments are still resisting the change because of security concerns, a survey has found.

  • Growing energy consumption: What's it mean for technology?

    Posted February 8, 2011 - 1:36 pm

    BP recently released, for the first time publicly, its projections of future energy trends titled BP Energy Outlook 2030. This document builds on BP's well known annual Statistical Review of World Energy which has been published since 1956. In publishing its Energy Outlook, BP joins a host of other organizations that attempt to forecast future global energy trends including its competitor Shell, which published its most recent Shell Energy Scenarios to 2050 in 2008, and the non-profit International Energy Agency (IEA), which publishes its World Energy Outlook annually. Each organization takes a somewhat different approach and covers different time periods so it is nearly impossible to make "apples to apples" comparisons. However, it is interesting to

  • IT execs hope iPad, PlayBook can boost decision-making process

    Posted February 2, 2011 - 3:55 pm

    IT executives at Chevron and TD Bank are testing whether tablets like Apple's iPad and the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook can be used to improve workflow processes int their companies.

  • For enterprise IT, hybrid cloud management is a priority

    Posted February 2, 2011 - 11:00 am

    IDC is forecasting that the total cloud systems management software market will total $2.5 billion by 2015. This market will encompass virtualization management, automated provisioning, self serve provisioning portals, dynamic consumption based metering and capacity analysis, service catalogs, end-to-end real time performance monitoring and related management software tools deployed into public and private cloud environments. These solutions will be purchased and deployed by service providers and end user customers. Adoption will ramp quickly as organizations reach a "tipping point" and move from cloud "sandboxes" to full blown production environments.

  • When the CEO gives iPads to all: One CIO's story

    Posted January 26, 2011 - 2:13 pm

    Last summer, KLA-Tencor, a Silicon Valley semiconductor equipment maker, rebounded from the market doldrums to post annual revenues of $1.8 billion. The happy CEO surprised the company's 5,400 employees by telling them that they would each be rewarded with a shiny, new iPad.

  • 9 ways to find hidden savings in your outsourcing invoice

    Posted January 20, 2011 - 5:27 pm

    Mistakes happen. Situations change. Yet very few outsourcing customers regularly check their outsourcing invoices against their original contracts on a regular basis. And that means they may be leaving thousands--or millions--on the table, says outsourcing consultants Adam Strichman and Mark Ruckman.

  • Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad

    Posted January 18, 2011 - 1:41 pm

    It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses might be pirated.
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