Memo to CIOs: Keep Your Employees Happy

Improving enterprise performance starts with our employees. Overtaxed employees eventually begin looking for a different job in hopes of a better environment, and all too often, the cycle of stress-burnout-quit repeats itself. By helping employees maintain balance and focus, CIOs can help minimize the impact on their department’s increased responsibilities and improve overall productivity. With…

Hiring: Smart Companies Get Aggressive

How many top IT positions do you plan to fill this week? (And, no, that is not a set-up for a joke.) Listen to Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, general manager at Learning@Cisco, the group responsible for professional development and certification: “We intend to be aggressive about hiring. If anything we will be increasing our hiring. We believe…

IT Still Relevant Even in a Downturn

Even when faced with a discouraging economic outlook, CEOs, CIOs and top enterprise managers projected increased budgets and staffing needs for 2009. That’s according to a survey commissioned by the Society for Information Management (SIM) that was completed in June. More than three-hundred respondents, primarily senior IT leaders within SIM’s membership base, participated, representing data…