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- Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years
- Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply
- Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...
- Tags: oil, Bakken
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners
- Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Private clouds: A valuable concept or buzzword bingo?
- Governance and Control are a serious isssue...The blog seemed to try to downplay the loss of control of business information and data like it was the same as losing control of an electricity grid. The two things are not the same. When the electricity grid goes down, sure business stops...
- Tags: Virtualization, Recruitment & Selection, tech industry, Google Inc., cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Outsourcing picks up for smaller enterprises
- The outsourcing market has traditionally been perceived as something only the larger enterprises entertain. Research from Computer Economics suggests that as the large enterprise business has become tougher, the outsourcing companies are getting better at reaching the smaller and mid-sized market. The reports...
- Tags: Application Development, Information Technology, Outsource, Service Provider, IT Organization, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Software Development, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- iPod touch camera modules failing?
- Apple camera problemsThe rumors are definitely true. Shipments are going to be delayed until after christmas, there is a bigger problem than with just the camera unfortunately. There will be a fresh new lineup of the ipod Made in China crapTop dollar product made in China by dirt-cheap suppliers and...
- Tags: Notebooks, iPod touch camera module, camera, camera module, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottom line
- SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottomCompletely disagree. Outsourcing only works for small projects that can't be done in-house, like wiring jobs, installing generators and the such. Outsourcing entire departments doesn't work. I've seen it before, when the employee is on a contract...
- Tags: Managed hosting, Outsourcing/Offshoring, outsourcing, outsource
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Windows 7 saves Microsoft, but will it rebuild post-Vista spirit?
- Windows 7 saves Microsoft, but will it rebuild post-Vista spirit?It's not even out yet and pre-release hype is the one thing MS is good at..Apart from selling vaporware and bait'n'switch products (DX10 and Flight Simulator X instantly spring to mind, if not Vista too...)I lost most respect for MS with...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- Portugal's wave farm may be sunk
- Slow deployment, bankrupt owner, perhaps a wave or two too far. The Portugal offshore wave farm to generate electricity may go the way of the Cray computer and the Edsel automobile. Or hydrogen powered cars. Back when I first blogged about the Pelamis tech...
- Tags: Portugal, Pelamis Co., Litigation, Outsourcing, Personal Finance, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Atoms or electrons: How does Hasbro make money?
- The global supply chain reaches all the way from Rhode Island to China and back. Tonka trucks, GI Joe action figures and my Little Pony are all real products sold to real kids. People who obsess about "good manufacturing jobs" fret about how nothing is made in the USA anymore, and toys...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Hasbro Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, AMR Research
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Google replies to cloud computing concerns
- Google replies to cloud computing concernsPeople generally use private vehicles ...... but take mass transit when it makes sense. There is no reason to believe all computing will be moved to public clouds. One other thing: the transportation industry is far more ancient than any utility industry.RE: Google replies to...
- Tags: Managed hosting, Virtualization, cloud computing concern, cloud computing, Google Inc., outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?
- Are businesses going to shift more work to outsourcers, or will they hold back to avoid business disruption, or moving jobs offshore? If you are involved in your organization's decisions to engage with third-parties for IT or BPO services, please spend a few minutes filling out my online survey...
- Tags: Recession, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Managed Hosting, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?Is our culture holding us back?I'm thinking that one of the big challenges to moving forward with any information technology is cultural change. We've seen an amazing capacity for younger generations those in their teens and twenties today to be able...
- Tags: data model, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- IBM - Wantin' and Gettin' Stimulus Money
- Give them the same consideration that GM, Chrysler, etc. are getting IBM has a PR problem. Asking for stimulus money from the U.S. government while transferring jobs overseas is not going over well in the U.S. CNN picked up on it and ran this on-air story recently....
- Tags: IBM Corp., Stimulus Money, Government, Vertical Industries, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to India
- WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to Indiais this 'change we can believe in'?We thought Bush was ignorant about the job market, but Obama is downright anti American and in bed with the big and greedy corporations.RE: WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to IndiaWow. Linux...
- Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Good Business, IBM Corp., layoff, IBM layoff, job
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- Upgrade talent for the economy to come
- Bad pathologies to avoid in new employees One of the best pieces of advice that came from last week’s IDC Directions conference was an almost throwaway comment from one of the IDC executive speakers: Start planning for the recovery. That’s actually...
- Tags: Talent, Firm, Self-starters, Malcolm Gladwell, Stars, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- America's lag-time in alternative energy
- I just blogged about San Francisco applying for a permit to build an offshore wave farm to generate electricity. That's but the second step after deciding to try this tech. It's many more steps before anything is actually placed in the Pacific. And this is San Francisco, positioned next...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from stimulus plan
- Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from stimulus planThe debt is already thereThe irresponsibility of the previous administration to carry on an all out war with decreases in taxes is what got us into this mess in the first place. We've been draining money on overseas projects for the last...
- Tags: indirect benefit, stimulus plan, benefit
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- What is American?
- What is American?hear hearI agree wholeheartedly, JohnCompletely agree! Great post.I completely agree with your post, John. I hate it when people try to impose what being an American means. Being American means being someone who is willing to learn and word hard to achieve his dreams, not someone who thinks...
- Tags: H-1B program, H-1B
- Discussion threads 2009-01-30
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