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Advice for IT managers, including job search tips, compensation, consumerization of IT, project management, demonstrating IT's value to the business, security, outsourcing, and vendor management.
CAREER
IT manager resume makeover: How to show you can be CIO
Ambitious IT managers and IT directors dream of moving into CIO positions. But in today's competitive job market, organizations hiring CIOs want "proven" candidates who currently possess that title, according to executive recruiters. Here's how to show you have skills for the job.
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BOOKS
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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier
In this insightful and entertaining book, Bruce Schneier weaves together ideas from across the social and biological sciences to explain how trust works and fails in social settings, communities, organizations, countries, and the world. Enter now!
Making it Big in Software' by Sam Lightstone.
Career advice for every definition of 'big'. Enter now!
CONSUMERIZATION OF IT
IT's 6-step guide to adopting consumerization
Most businesses are accepting, even embracing, consumer technology. What do they know that you don't?
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INTERVIEWS
CA Technologies CEO William McCracken: Doing what the customer needs
McCracken spoke at the recent CA World conference to IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how the concept of 'business service innovation' is driving CA's business.
Q&A: Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley touts new 'supply chain of IT'
Systems monitoring and management may be headed to the cloud as management-as-a-service. Nimsoft CEO Chris O'Malley explains what that means and how it will affect IT.
Read more Q&As with the tech industry's top CEOs.
LIGHT READING
Culture club: How companies bring cool to the workplace
Want to create a cool office to work in? Those who have done it recommend taking a look around you. Hold onto the aspects of the existing culture you like, dump the ones you don't, and at all times, display and inspire the culture you want to create.
