Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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By Shravan Goli Twenty years ago, I graduated from the University of Maryland with my Master’s degree in computer science. From my first days as a developer in the 1990s to my steps into management, I’ve always looked at my career as more than a series of steps up a ladder. I’ve viewed my career…
Career website Dice.com is out with its annual Linux Jobs market report and once again demand is growing. The report is sponsored by the Linux Foundation, which does of course have its own particular bias when it comes to Linux, though there are still a few surprises in it. “Based on our work with the…
By Taso Du Val All companies want to hire top talent. The catch: Many don’t know how. The competition to find and hire the right candidate—along with the increased globalization of today’s marketplace—makes it more and more difficult to secure top talent. The good news is that the key to finding and acquiring this talent…
By Samuel Greengard Over the last decade, every aspect of business and IT has become more demanding. Here are seven of the most common ways CIOs fall short in handling career development for managers and others: Overwork everyone.Today’s always-on 24x7x365 workplace heapsenormous demandson IT departments. In addition, keeping up with a blitz of projects and…
by Ramesh Dorairaj, vice president of IT and product engineering services company at MindTree In an ideal world, companies that effectively leverage the global delivery model stand to gain in several areas, ranging from cost advantages to access to talent to the ability to innovate rapidly. However, outsourcing to another entity in another country where…
by Ben Pring and Paul Roehrig, co-directors, Center for the Future of Work at Cognizant Though western economies have become increasingly post-industrial, many organizations retain business and operating models that would look familiar to factory workers from the Industrial Revolution. Workers may now manipulate paper and code rather than iron and steel, but oftentimes the…
by Fernando Alvarez, vice president and leader of Capgemini’s Mobile Solutions practice Mobility is the next big phenomenon that is already here. According to Cisco, there will be more mobile devices than people by 2016 based on UN projections that the world population will reach 7.3 billion within four years. While many enterprises are already…
Mobile app devs, product designers in demand Today it seems that every company is making an app, and to do so, they need mobile app developers and data warehouse analysts with computer science and computer engineering backgrounds. Another hot area is product designers, not engineering-types, but user experience designers that can understand what the customer…
Job trend reports point to openings and opportunities for growth, particularly among mobile app developers, data warehouse analysts and user experience designers. And a recent Bloomberg Businessweek article reports that computer systems manufacturers, social media and other Internet companies at the front lines of the talent wars, are seeing fierce competition. Tech sector hiring tightens…
by Shawn Edmondson, VP of Product Strategy, rPath According to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, IT professionals have very little to worry about when it comes to job security. Aside from healthcare-related services, IT ranks at the very top of nearly every list with respect to long-term job prospects. Macro vs. micro – a…