From ROI to ROS: Return on Skills

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…

2011 Salaries Looking Up

The good news: IT salary levels are once again headed upward. The 2011 IT Salary Guide indicates some respectable boosts in average salary. Lead applications developers get a 4.7% increase and software engineers enjoy a 4.1% boost in paycheck. Okay, so IT managers move up a ho-hum 2.5% and project managers rise 2.8%, but Web…

CIOs Gain Influence Globally During ‘Great Recession’

In a global survey of CIOs undertaken by Harvey Nash and PA Consulting Group, 71 percent of participants revealed their roles were becoming more strategic and, for the first time since the survey began in 1998, more than half said that they sit on the operational boards for their co companies. Moreover the 2010 CIO…