Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Workplace Communication will Favor Real-Time Tools Email may soon become the new snail mail, a new Robert Half Technology survey suggests. More than half of CIOs interviewed recently said real-time workplace communication tools will surpass traditional email in popularity within the next five years. CIOs were asked, “In the next five years, do you think…
Thanks to 1.5 million volunteers who left their computers running when not in use and a little help from Big Blue, cancer researchers have announced significant progress in looking for new potential drugs in cancer treatment. The Help Conquer Cancer Project worked with the IBM-supported World Community Grid to send out protein samples for simulation…
Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook allow people to communicate more loosely, but many companies are tightening their grip on how employees use these channels at work. Some 38 percent of CIOs interviewed are implementing stricter social networking policies — more than twice the number (17 percent) who say they have relaxed the…
A great deal has changed in just the two to three years since the term CMDB became a part of IT’s common vernacular. And then a great deal hasn’t. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research from June of this year shows that initiatives are further along, strategies are evolving, however most deployments still suffer from politics,…
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira wants to make one thing clear to people who think it’s more effective to juggle multiple tasks at once: “There’s no such thing as multitasking,” Spira said. “We’re switching between tasks, but we [human beings] are not capable of multitasking.” The comments came during a recent…