Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
By Samuel Greengard CIOs can boost their odds of success by considering these five approaches: View resistance as an opportunity.By now, it’s clear that consumer technology has turned IT upside down. It’s tempting to bemoan the loss of control and complain about the growing challenge of dealing withshadow ITand ageneral defianceto abide by polices. But…
CIOs Reveal Q4 Hiring Plans Technology executives expect information technology (IT) hiring to continue in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the just-released Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. In the latest quarterly survey, 12 percent of CIOs said they plan to expand their IT departments, and 6 percent expect cutbacks…
As it continues to layer new social features onto its Web properties, Yahoo is expanding its partnership with Facebook to sync up the two services. Under the new arrangement, users will be able to couple their Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Facebook accounts so they can access their news feed, mail and other information from the…
Two separate reports paint quite a picture of how the way Americans communicate has changed — with dramatic implications for how business communications will be done in the future, as well. One quarter of U.S. homes have given up their landlines and use only a cell phone, according to a new survey conducted by the…
The so-called consumerization of the enterprise trend has many companies establishing an online social networking presence on Facebook, Twitter and other social media as a way to reach customers and even to appeal to a younger, Web-savvy generation of employees. But there are many more tools and services companies could be using to derive value…
Technology executives are signaling a readiness to make critical IT investments, a new survey shows. More than one-third (37 percent) of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed said, post-recession, they plan to implement software and hardware upgrades deferred due to the bad economy. Others foresee moving forward with virtualization projects (16 percent) and website design initiatives…
That didn’t take long. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has yet to ship its much-hyped iPad tablet, but Elance has reported there’s already demand for iPad application developers ahead of next month’s launch. The iPad rode of a broader wave of demand for mobile tech skills at the online contract services site. While Web development continues to…
From killers to hoaxes, 2009 had its share of the nefarious and inane―in real life and at the intersection where real life meets the digital world … a still mystifying and mysterious GPS coordinate somewhere in the Twilight Zone. To put things into perspective, we’ve come up with our own Top 10 list of some…
As a young discipline, KM has many definitions and interpretations. Most efforts to date have misinterpreted knowledge management and equated it with content or information management. The term “management” brings about an illusion of exercising control and creating defined processes which automatically extracts the knowledge from people and puts it into searchable repositories within a…
SAN FRANCISCO — Business has gotten the message: Pay attention to social media, and begin to figure it out. The Social Networking Conference, held Thursday and Friday this week in San Francisco, aims to help them figure out how to do it. As usual, conference speakers emphasized authenticity, empowering users and creating a good experience…