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IBM and Learn.com Speed Training, Career Development for Employees of Rapidly Growing Home Health Services Company

A home health services company wanted to train a rapidly increasing number of employees without adding in-house trainers. As a solution the company deployed Learn.com LearnCenter Learning and Talent Management Suite delivered through IBM Managed Services. As a result the company reduced expenses and time in training employees, and employees...

Tags: Career Development, Health Service, Health Care, Training, IBM Corp., Professional Development, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Training And Certification, Benefits, Healthcare, Career, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-02-01

Top career development resources: The best of Calvin Sun

Communications coach and author Calvin Sun has been sharing his insights on TechRepublic to help IT pros improve their professional interactions. This collection includes a number of his most popular articles, spanning the basics of business communications, from telephone and e-mail etiquette to negotiation skills to effective methods of dealing...

Tags: Career Development, Negotiation, Calvin Sun, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Free Trade, Career, Finance

Download resources 2008-01-14

A Balanced Plan for Career Development

In the tight labor market of the late 1990s, most human resources managers began to pay a great deal more attention to their dwindling future supply of talent and to their policies for developing talent internally. When they did, they realized quickly that the old days of career development were...

Tags: Career Development, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career

White papers 2007-12-01

Gender Issues in the Career Development of IT Professionals: A Global Perspective

Each period of technological change carries with it high expectations of societal and organizational restructuring that will favour the disadvantaged. The same is true for the Information and Communication Technologies. The fast expansion of the IT labour market, the need for diverse talents, the shift in the demand from technical...

Tags: Career Development, Women, Information Technology, GISdevelopment.net, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Strategy, Human Resources, Career, Management

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IT Career Development Schemes Praised

Scotland's West Dunbartonshire Council and consulting firm Deloitte have both won British Computer Society BCS Professional Development Awards. The Awards were created with the aim of recognising, encouraging and supporting best practice within employers' career development programmes. The BCS chief executive believes that such initiatives are vital to improving the...

Tags: Career Development, Information Technology, Training, Training Reference, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Career, Human Resources

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HR Group Improves Employee Career Development and New-Business Staffing

As Microsoft has grown to a 77,000-person organization with locations around the world, employees have found it difficult to create career paths within the company. The Microsoft Human Resources Group developed an interactive tool called CareerCompass, which helps employees chart their careers dynamically, receiving specific guidance every step of the...

Tags: Career Development, Talent, Employee, Microsoft Corp., Professional Development, Workforce Management, Career, Human Resources

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A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business

I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Steve Ballmer, Forrester Research Inc., Steve, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Matthew Brown

Blog posts 2009-10-22

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

Why Mac open source gets no respect

"Since Macs generally cost less than PCs"THEY ARE? Since when? And that doesn't jive at all with "Macs are upscale"... and cheaper. Mmmm no.No counterpart to XBMC?There are a ton of Media Center applications for windows, including Windows Media Center, which is fairly adept at just about...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Mac people, Apple Macintosh, XBMC, MCE, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Dell and Perot: What this means

Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Taleo, Talent Management and What’s Wrong With ERP Spending

Is your career worth at least one security patch? This week, Taleo is conducting its user conference in Las Vegas. They are announcing their Taleo 10 product this week to coincide with the show. Rarely do I get to see a software vendor...

Tags: Talent, Taleo Corp., ERP, Talent Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Workforce Management, Professional Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Career, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Should you benefit from ACN’s bloodletting?

If you like great talent, you should….. Accenture has cut loose many senior executives recently and will pare some more given last Thursday’s announcement. I know some of these folks. Specific vertical segments have been pared down to reflect new market realities. These include: automotive...

Tags: Consultant, Benefit, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Career, Sales, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Packaged software, an accident of history

"government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...

Tags: Google Gmail, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Dana Blankenhorn, Smart Phone, Andrew Nusca, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail Providers, E-mail, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Fortune 500 Series: How EMC used social media to recruit, re-brand, rebuild

EMC can best be described as an entity. Not only in the Fortune 500, the infrastructure information provider was recognized by Fortune as one of the 10 most admired companies for product and service quality. This success didn't come easy to the giant, which needed to significantly rebuild its business...

Tags: Social Networking, Brand, Social Media, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Next-generation students want careers in computing

Generation Z, the term referring to today's teenagers who have yet to finish their studies or enter higher education, see the computing and technology industry as being their most likely choice of career. In an online survey of just over 1,800 Australian teenagers, those aged between 12...

Tags: Computing, Professional Development, Career, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-24

How to mentor entry level developers

TechRepublic's Justin James has seen enough mentoring boondoggles to have a good idea of what does and doesn’t work. He shares his ideas about how to have a successful software developer mentoring program. One of my recent TechRepublic polls covered the topic of why we hire entry-level...

Tags: Developer, Programmer, Mentor, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-24

A success story out of Florida

Before I left on vacation (I'm back, by the way and officially jacked in...Go WiFi!), I asked what all of you were doing this summer. I heard from and got a few ideas from a tech coordinator out in Oregon. A couple days ago, I heard from a...

Tags: Certification, Professional Development, Student, Academy, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-18

Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petard

Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petardAlready in the works...Been in research for going on 4 years.RE: Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petardI wouldn't want to think Chrome browser adoption has been great. Same way, though the idea is a nice one of no frills, kind of web only OS (are...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, UNIX, Web browsers, Moonlight 2.0, Chrome, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-08