Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
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…
ServiceNow Leads Analyst Ranking for ITSM Software ServiceNow, the creators of SaaS for IT, today announced Ovum, a Datamonitor company and IT industry analyst firm, has recognized ServiceNow as the leading company ranked in its report, Decision Matrix: Selecting an IT Service Management Vendor. Based on its analysis of 13 ITSM tool vendors, the report…
As a driver of future revenue growth for the technology industry, the U.S. market has rebounded to first place from third just a year ago — ahead of China and India, according to the results of the annual Technology Industry Business Climate survey by KPMG LLP, the audit, tax, and advisory firm. Yet, while the…
Technology executives forecast continued IT hiring in the second quarter of 2011, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. In the latest quarterly survey, 9 percent of CIOs said they plan to expand their IT departments, and just 2 percent expect cutbacks, for a net 7 percent increase in…
All eyes have been on Egypt for weeks now yet few saw it as the beginning of the end of offshore outsourcing as we know it. “Had India unplugged the Internet, companies worldwide would be hard at work reconfiguring their offshoring strategy,” said Barry Carter, a CIO for 10 years at AirTran, Capital One, UnitedHealth…
Global operations within electronics and high-tech firms offer a wealth of growth opportunities that can accelerate firms towards high performance. Accenture arrives at this conclusion based on new research, The Future of Electronics and High Tech, that polled COOs and other executives from companies in the enterprise, communications and consumer technology industries that have operations…
A new survey of the IT employment marketplace released this week indicates that some job listings and wages are beginning to return as the economy begins to recover. However, the survey, by Janco Associates, found that work opportunities and compensation are not rebounding across the board. Bigger, it turns out, is better. “Even though many…