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by Scott Wilson on February 5, 2010
And you thought I was just kidding about the IT staff robots with the big red reboot buttons on their foreheads when I mentioned my dream earlier this week.
An intrepid reader pointed me toward the...
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by Scott Wilson on January 27, 2010
What with all the buzz about cloud computing, agile operations, and the consumerization of IT (don't pretend you didn't spend most of your day skimming TechMeme for iPad news) it's easy to...
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by Scott Wilson on January 19, 2010
There is a danger with outsourcing and process streamlining that if you turn it over to people who don't have a vested interest in actually making it more streamlined or simpler, you get processes...
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by Scott Wilson on January 13, 2010
Charles Moss has posted "5 Steps for Agility in a Volatile Economy" and I think it worth pointing out to the IT crowd that reads this blog. You're probably sick of hearing about "ag...
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by Scott Wilson on December 7, 2009
So when I talked about the importance of retention the other day, I didn't really take a look at what skillsets are most valuable to hold on to. Retention, in an environment where IT is projected to ...
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by Scott Wilson on November 30, 2009
It probably seems premature to some people to be talking about IT staff retention while there are still vast pools of laid-off techie talent out there to draw on and while budgets remain tight in many...
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by Scott Wilson on November 4, 2009
Today's round of Microsoft layoffs, widely reported elsewhere, included a somewhat surprising addition: Don Dodge, the Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team, who blogs about ...
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by Scott Wilson on November 2, 2009
There has been a bit of a low-level buzz lately over whether or not Google's famously rigorous hiring standards have actually resulted in superior performance at the operational level. The company is...
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by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2009
I just noticed this post by Michael Krigsman over at ZDNet's IT Project Failures blog linking to a post at OPENforum on "The Seven Laws of Projects, and How to Break Them." The post, and these laws, ...
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by Scott Wilson on September 23, 2009
I guess I am only moderately suprised that with the economy verging out of the recession, many businesses appear to be heading back down the Upgrade Highway, as is indicated in the results of this Rob...
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by Scott Wilson on June 1, 2009
I thought I would pass this along quickly since I doubt many of you spend a lot of time monitoring the hotbed of activity that is the Microsoft MOF and Service Management blog.
The Microsoft Operatio...
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by Scott Wilson on May 11, 2009
There are few things more controversial in the world of IT HR than the H1B foreign-worker visa program. CIOs, as a rule, are fans; the ability to hire from an increasingly large pool of eager and well...
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by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2009
Perhaps predictably, my praise of HP's handling of the recession touched a raw nerve, particularly among HP (or former HP) employees.
Unfortunately this morning is also when our comments and edit...
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by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2009
I've spent my share of time haranguing all the companies out there who are busily and arbitrarily slashing costs and headcounts in response to the financial crisis; now it's time to acknowledg...
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by Scott Wilson on March 18, 2009
I'm sitting here watching AIG CEO Ed Liddy testify before the House Financial Services Committee insisting that he had to pay out massive bonuses to a bunch of people who, rightly or wrongly, are ...
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by Scott Wilson on March 11, 2009
If you haven't seen this Forrester blog post yet, go over and give it a read. No, I'll wait.
Okay. Well, what did you think? Although they didn't put his name on the article (perhaps yo...
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by Umair Khalid on March 4, 2009
Meridith Levinson posted an editorial yesterday calling on job-seekers to stand up to employers who are doing background research on the Internet and demand respect for their privacy.
Your first thou...
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by Scott Wilson on February 11, 2009
Michael Krigsman, of ZDNet's IT Project Failures blog, points out the recent rapid expansion of flashy technology dashboards, those cool collections of reports and data which appeal to almost ever...
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by Scott Wilson on January 6, 2009
Due to the vagaries of copyright and the terms of my employment, you'll have to read the full text of this article at my other blog. Please due, I spent ever so much time polishing it up for you.
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by Scott Wilson on January 5, 2009
Everyone thinks they are serious about running their business efficiently until something like the current economic client rolls in on them, and then the panic sets in and suddenly budgets which previ...
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by Scott Wilson on January 5, 2009
I mentioned last week that it is probably about time to shake off the shock of the downturn and start looking seriously at how to restructure your IT department to deal with tighter, more competetive ...
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by Scott Wilson on December 15, 2008
The best kind to have, aren't they? So I thought, hey, those folks in the Financial sector who have reportedly been having trouble filling their IT positions in 2008 have to be feeling pretty good...
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by Scott Wilson on December 11, 2008
So say a significant chunk of the 450 respondents comprised of CIOs, CFOs, and HR professionals surveyed by "modernisation solution" provider MicroFocus in a report released earlier this mon...
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by Scott Wilson on December 1, 2008
Michael Krigsman has posted a podcast interview on his Project Failures blog with Brian Sommer on the subject of project management and system integrators or "consultants" as they like to ca...
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by Scott Wilson on November 10, 2008
Apparently I was mistaken regarding the venue of the Apple/IBM dispute over former IBM executive Mark Papermaster's non-compete; I had read that the matter was set to play out in California, a not...
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by Scott Wilson on October 14, 2008
You may already have seen this, but then again you may not have, if you aren't much concerned with startups or venture capitalists (and let's hope for your sake that you are not right now!) so...
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by Scott Wilson on September 19, 2008
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 powerful, and mingle with the...
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by Scott Wilson on September 15, 2008
First they partner with Novell. Then they openly publish all their protocol specifications, putting them up there on the web right out there in front of ESR and everybody. Now the Microsoft Operati...
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by Scott Wilson on September 15, 2008
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 CIO responsible for hiring and firing such staff...
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by Scott Wilson on July 28, 2008
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 ser...
