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- BearingPoint’s Q3 earnings call - part 1
- To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint’s BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...
- Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Eleven qualities of successful IT managers
- Developing these core competencies will help you achieve higher success levels and will position you for greater career responsibility. Your career advancement hinges on a long list of capabilities, including working proactively, having strong follow-up skills, and negotiating effectively with vendors. But according to Mike Sisco, when...
- Tags: Career Advancement, Professional Development, Career
- Download resources 2005-08-01
- 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, Projects, Professional Development, Communication Skills, Training And Certification, Career
- White papers 2004-04-14
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- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make
- Guest post: Certain common IT management mistakes can make you less effective, hamper your career advancement, and even jeopardize your job. Executive coach Joey Smith has spent years working with IT management and he put together this list of the mistakes he’s seen most often. For more posts like this...
- Tags: Job, IT Administration, Information Technology, IT Manager, Personal Development, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Hunker down or flourish - The choice of today's service groups
- Lots of free advice for service firms in a tough economy Recently, I completed a PowerPoint deck on a subject that I’ve lived through a couple of times in my career: how should a services firm navigate a tough economy. I presented that material in a webinar...
- Tags: Recession, Service Group, Service Firm, Professional Development, Business Services, Operational Accounting, Career, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- SAG follows the path blazed by the UAW
- SAG follows the path blazed by the UAWNo one ever said union members where intelligentof course they will cut off their noses to spite their faces.The union leaders the ones living the good life do not want smart members, just dues paying sheep.Unions were critical at one time, not anymore...There...
- Tags: UAW
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Congress opens Pandora Box of mental health parity
- Congress opens Pandora Box of mental health parityIsn't that what actuaries are for?Assuming that mental health issues are illnesses, isn't is possible to do statistical analyses on various mental health illnesses to figure out their probability of occurring and costs of treatments. That's how other things are insured including...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Professional development, Mental Illness, health care, health parity, Pandora, depression, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Five realities of Google or any other Workplace Wonderland
- Five realities of Google or any other Workplace WonderlandThe best will float to the top?In any sizable company there are people that aren't pushing boundaries and so will be left somewhat self-stagnating. That's inherent in 9-5 working - some people ultimately turn up to collect their pay cheque.Plus you get...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Google Inc., Workplace Wonderland, workplace, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!There is no future in ITThe IT bubble bust around 2000 was only the tip of the ice burg. Today, IT is a mediocre industry that has an ecosystem of incompetent and insufficiently educated people from the "IT Recruiters/HR", the people doing the hiring to the...
- Tags: Professional development, Strategy, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, IT IS, information technology, career
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry FordDeservedly so. He is a modern day Henry FordLike HF, Bill Gates has truly made a historic impact on the high tech industry and his philanthropy work is already making an incredible difference.Good for him.Having said that, Microsoft has missed the internet boat...
- Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Strategy, Bill G, personal computer revolution, Bill Gates, Billg, Henry Ford, modern day, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- A place for our stuff
- This morning I learned of the news of George Carlin's passing with much sadness, and with the realization that we have lost one of the great thinkers and comedic minds of the last century. More than any other comedian, he was the one who I identified with most. Someone who...
- Tags: Possession, Stuff, Government, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?
- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?thank uGood article and great research. Somthing different from usual posts. It is very sad that not all people are treated the same at work.Free will...Orientation may or may not exist in terms of genetic factors, but that does not take away the...
- Tags: Professional development, career
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- 10 ways to work better with your boss
- Bosses: You can't live with them, and you can't live without them. Like it or not, most of us must deal with a boss, and the way we do so affects not just our career advancement and our salary, but also our mental well-being. Here are some tips on how...
- Tags: Boss, Calvin Sun, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Blogging, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Career, Internet, Human Resources
- Download resources 2007-12-18
- Avaya Case Study: Association of Accounting Technicians
- The Association of Accounting Technicians AAT, established in 1980, is a United Kingdom-based non-profit membership body supporting the training, the qualification and the practices of accounting technicians. Maintaining a dynamic communications environment with a diverse community of interest is difficult at best, and AAT was hampered by an underdeveloped communication...
- Tags: Accounting, Avaya Inc., Operational Accounting, Professional Development, Financial Services, Finance, Career
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Moore's Law irrelevant? Afraid so, at least for ed tech
- Moore's Law irrelevant? Afraid so, at least for ed techWhy the title?I think we should all be glad, that we can use our old hardware longer than we used to. So: why the "afraid" in your blog title? This is reason for joy, not for fear! :-)Greetz, Pjotr.I...
- Tags: Thin clients, thin client, thin-client service
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Fatal Attractions: technology, judgement, and the big four
- Fatal Attractions: technology, judgement, and the big fourLaurence Peter might have predicted itIt's really a variant of what he called "computerized incompetence". I wonder what percentage of senior managers are hired from outside, since it's clear that real accountants at the lower levels are strongly encouraged to go elsewhere.Andersen:...
- Tags: Andersen
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Republicans break ranks to oppose tech-backed bill
- Republicans break ranks to oppose tech-backed billWhat a bunch of idiotsAs part of a scientific research and educational institution that's undergoing a massive budget crisis because the NIH does not have the funds to pay for the grants they've already awarded, trust me, increased spending will in fact help...
- Tags: education
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
- VMware attacks Microsoft virtualization strategy
- VMware attacks Microsoft virtualization strategyNot an issueThere's plenty of VM market growth potential to be had without even considering MS Vista.MS Vista is only going to weaken its position with restrictive licensing and they really aren't a player in VM anyhow.Why bother?Why do people continue to choose a platform which...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, MS Vista, strategy, Microsoft Corp., VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- Jobs has harsh words for teacher unions
- Jobs has harsh words for teacher unionsJobs believes people should take risksWhat understandably drives Steve Jobs mad is seeing a person, in this case, a teacher, wasting their life, not pursuing their passion. In other words: poor teachers are bored teachers. It's doubly bad because they not only...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-18
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