© therapycatguardian Today is a good day to get out of your office, descend the gilded staircase from your lofty ivory tower where you typically spend your days among the corporate mighty and...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Frank van den Bergh First they partner with Novell. Then they openly publish all their protocol specifications, putting them up there on the web right out there in...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Sharon Dominick There is a typically contentious article up on Slashdot this morning discussing the subject of testing IT job candidates, which is worth a read for the...
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A Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates the likelihood of significant decreases in IT jobs, both with in-house and contract staff, as well as low demand for utility or "cloud" computing...
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I blogged a couple of weeks ago about a manager's perspective on telecommuting, a perspective provided by IT Business Edge's Ken Hardin, who viewed the prospect with considerable skepticism...
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When automated processes break down in the modern enterprise, who gets the blame? The IT department, of course, with you, the CIO, called on the carpet to explain, without lapsing into the required...
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Interesting post from Ken Hardin over at IT Business Edge titled "A Crotchety Manager's View on Telecommuting" outlining some new and critical perspectives of telecommuting by staff....
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© webg33k I may be obsessing way too much on the management dilemma posed by the millenial generation for CIOs. It turns out that IT is, like, totally boring, and they don't want to work for you...
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First, a question: do broad, generational stereotypes extend across different cultures? And if so, to what extent? I ask because of this article in Silicon.com about "boring" IT curriculum...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Lise Gagne I have to admit I had never heard this one before; usually when you hear debates about coding style and quality, they are centered around domestic versus...
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John Halamka recently posted this list of ideas on How to be a Great Boss. As always with John's posts, it's worth a read, but I can't help but wonder in going through it whether or not...
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According to this CIO.com article, you are all carrying 40% greater costs in your departmental budgets than you need to. Time to break out the long knives. The thing about this is that while I find...
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The Microsoft Operations Framework team posted yesterday to announce the release of version 4.0 of their product. I imagine I'll have more to comment on this topic after I've had a chance to...
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Mary Jo Foley has obtained and now published an internal Microsoft memo detailing some of the links and plans between the next version of Windows and the windows live hosted services which Microsoft...
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© jvumn It's no secret to most CIOs that managing the IT department in any major company is as much politics as technology. The question of which factor is ascendant in the corporate...
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Last month Bill Gates appeared before the House Committee on Science and Technology to appeal for an increase in the number of H1B work visas issued for specialty workers brought in to the US from...
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If I hear management talking about "Generation Y" or "The Millenials" as they are called, it's generally in pejorative terms. They don't focus, they lack initiative, they...
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I was reminded during an exchange between another consultant and myself in comments over my recent entry on how to pick a CIO of how de rigeur it is for those of us in this profession, and indeed...
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I often preach to clients that if you aren't measuring that you are doing something, and can't prove it from the numbers, that you aren't actually doing it; you're just saying you...
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As a CIO or other high-level technology executive, how could you not? "How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential" right there in the Wall Street Journal! Half a dozen very successful companies...
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The Microsoft Operation Framework version 4, still in development, has released a beta update to testers as of last Friday, covering all core modules with the exception of the Team Model Service...
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It's probably just coincidence that I was hearing sirens out the window as I was reading Michael Krigsman's post on emergency vehicle manufacturer American LaFrance blaming IBM for its recent...
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