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How to Run Application Delivery as a Business: Learn how to take Application Delivery AD to the next level. Find out how to move from QA to a team that delivers significant, visible, and measurable business value. Hear from Jeff Wilkinson, who runs a world class AD organization for Accenture on: - How to use the growing focus...; Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp., QA, career advancement, game; Webcasts 2004-11-03
Effective People Skills for the Project Manager: A Requirement for Project Success and career advancement: Projects are always technical problems with significant human dimensions. As projects increase in complexity (virtual teams, involving cross cultural variables and the need to achieve more with less), increasing emphasis is being placed upon the need for the technical professional to develop competencies in specific, tangible "People skills." Importantly, people...; Tags: Career Advancement, People Skill, Professional Development, Communication Skills, Career; White papers 2004-04-14
Certification Opens New Windows of Opportunity for Linda Gregoire, Including career advancement, a Substantial Raise, and Bonus: When international law firm Pillsbury Winthrop LLP opened a word processing supervisor position, Linda Gregoire jumped at the chance to advance her word processing career. After a successful interview, Gregoire was offered the position on the condition that she complete Microsoft Office certifications for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Already an...; Tags: Word-processing, Certification, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Career Advancement, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Word Processors, Quality, Professional Development, Office Suites, Software, Business Operations, Career; Case studies

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A robotic chef for your kitchen?: The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...; Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-15
10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test): Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-15

Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!: Pursuing a career in Information Technology comes with certain responsibilities and baggage -- among these are having to act as a personal, unpaid member of the Geek Squad whenever a friends and family computer is ill. Yesterday I got a phone call...; Tags: America Online Inc., Internet, E-mail Providers, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-14
10 ways to develop customer self-sufficiency: Helping your customers become more technically capable frees you up to spend more time giving them higher-value services -- which could ultimately benefit your career. Calvin Sun offers some advice for helping your customers become a bit more self-reliant.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things...; Tags: Customer, Calvin Sun, Professional Development, Blogging, Benefits, Career, Internet, Human Resources; Download resources 2008-05-14
News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Major career web sites hit by spammers attack: Major career web sites hit by spammers attackStealing data is one thing and spamming is anotherThe only way to stop spam is at its orginating point.If ISPs were encouraged to follow a mandate for testing the validity of a source e-mail (vis-a-vis test for PGP MIME signature) all non-comformant email...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, spammers attack, career Web sites, e-mail; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
On polite police: The Register is reporting on a pilot program in the UK under which police officers will have video cameras sticking out of their helmets. The goal is to encourage good behavior on the part of suspects (and, I suppose, on the part of police officers). So What?...; Tags: Camera, Register, Ed Gottsman; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Major career web sites hit by spammers attack: What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...; Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-12
The application interface problem: The application interface problemKISSIn the early 90s, I was able to work with these kinds of users and design an interface. I worked at GenDyn and we had a computer room staffed with Computer Operators. These people were not computer experts - they were sometimes known as "tape hangers". In...; Tags: Backups, Learnability, application interface problem, learnability, tape, discoverability; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
News to know: Facebook; OpenOffice; Firefox; RIM: Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May Joe McKendrick: Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day? Tom Foremski: Informatica is on the block say senior sources Michael Krigsman: Hosted...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, OpenOffice, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
A new career: isotope designer: A new career: isotope designerScale CorrectionPlease note, you have misinterpreted Sherrill's quote regarding the scale at which he works. He said he works *at* the scale of the atomic nucleus, 100,000 times smaller than the *nanoscale* - not 100,000 times smaller than the atomic nucleus.Thanks,Brian Hawthorne; Tags: Professional development, career; Discussion threads 2008-05-11
A new career: isotope designer: According to a Michigan State University MSU news release, 'Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier,' nuclear physicists can now start a new career as isotope designers. These scientists can build specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. The lead researcher says this approach...; Tags: Michigan State University, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Professional Development, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Career, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-10
Why do Macs need so much fixing?: Last weekend, in the course of a column about Steve Ballmer, my colleague Larry Dignan tossed an offhand shout-out in my general direction: When Ed Bott has a series on how to fix–or at least cope with Vista–you know this OS isn't so hot. Why should this thing need...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Microsoft appeals $1.4 billion EU fine: Microsoft appeals $1.4 billion EU fineExtortion?IIUC the fine is for 'abusing a monopoly position'. All MS have to do is stop the abuse. Simple. If they carry on, or they argue that the abuse is justified, then they will keep getting fined. That will hurt themselves, their customers and their...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?: Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?Yes butThis is a constant refrain. The short termism we see dominates the way tech companies behave.. It's dark side is what happens when companies get over awed eg i2. I'm glad so many of the newbies are not looking for exits...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, sway, technology sector, shareholder, stock; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
On polite police: On polite policeThat's a beautiful dream.Buuut, it's never going to happen. There's enough 'cops on camera' shows with 'career limiting moves' in them....and as these shows demonstrate, swearing at a cop can get you arrested so, bit more of a deterrent if you ask me.RE: On polite policeprivacy software will...; Tags: polite police; Discussion threads 2008-05-07
SAP BPM - business fail?: SAP BPM - business fail?BPM makes Business/IT conversation more neededHaving been in the BPM space for well over a decade, I guess I would consider myself a BPM pragmatist rather than purist. But having been chasing the right balance of business user input and operational integrity my entire career, I...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, Enterprise software, Supply chain management (SCM), SAP AG, BPM; Discussion threads 2008-05-07