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- Do college degrees get you anywhere?
- Do college degrees get you anywhere?Just another thought...In the sector of work I'm in, I think IT is losing it's "elite" status as a job. With basic IT skills being aquirable with just a few certifications it is becoming less elite and more like a tradeskill not unlike an...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Benefits, Development tools, salary, job, IT IS, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- "IT is boring," scoff students
- "IT is boring," scoff studentsIT is like any other career.Some of it is interesting and some of it is boring. There is also a misconception that once you have a degree in computer science you are automatically the cats meow. That is, IT graduates don't believe they need to pay...
- Tags: Professional development, Outsourcing, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- 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
- IT is from Mars; Business is from Venus
- IT is from Mars; Business is from VenusAnd miscommunication is from Earth."What we have here is a failure to communicate", - Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke.There are other departments in a corporation that don't communicate either. Engineering and sales are good at going at it also. That is why...
- Tags: IT IS, Venus, user community
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- 5 reasons IT is soooo slowwww
- 5 reasons IT is soooo slowwwwIT departments are anti-nimbleIT departments by their very structure and responsibilities are unable to be nimble. They have been required to develop, manage and maintain large & complex systems with high levels of reliability and resilience. This mindset and process orientation works against...
- Tags: IT IS, IT Attitude, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- The CIO's innovation dilemma
- The CIO's innovation dilemmaHolistic approach vs Google or MicrosoftGreat stuff, Dennis.A lot of companies treat the enterprise like medical specialists. They love the kidney and that's all they worry about. Google is explicit that they want to work around IT. And Microsoft clearly focuses 100% on IT at the exclusion...
- Tags: Benefits, IT IS, innovation dilemma, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Is IT becoming extinct?
- Is IT becoming extinct?IT is branching into 2 distinct segmentsYou have raised some good points. I think that IT is diverging into two separate streams - firstly mission critical systems, that must be highly reliaible and resilient. Secondly non-critical systems that are being democratised. I don't think any...
- Tags: IT IS, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-23
- As others see us
- As others see usInternet appliancesI recall an attempt to sell stylish, cheap internet appliances some years ago. The attempt was not successful and a number of models were discontinued.I didn't see an explanation with actual information, but at the time I thought the view that people want only relatively...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Atari Inc., computer, IT IS, software
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales people
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales peopleThe Truth Is Out ThereGreat post and great e-Book! Its about time someone told the truth about enterprise sales!ObservationsHere on ZDNet I've posted:"The normal condition of software is broken."The author states:"The bottom line with custom software in the enterprise is that...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Tools & Techniques, salesperson, IT IS, enterprise software sales people, common ly, enterprise software sale, IT Department, ROI, software, enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Cloud computing hasn't gone Fortune 500 yet, but it's coming
- Cloud computing hasn't gone Fortune 500 yet, but it's comingWhat's perilous is cloud computing.Trusting a third party with your data and IT is dangerous. No one will put their heart behind anything like its owner. Corporations know better than to trust their IT to third parties for two...
- Tags: Small-Company, cloud computing, IT IS, server
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- A thought about Utility Computing
- A thought about Utility ComputingThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Data Center.Nicholas Carr is Earth's answer to Oolon Colluphid. Everywhere he looks, IT is dying. I expect him to release his new book, "Well, That About Wraps It Up For IT" any day now.Of course, centralized processing is not the entire...
- Tags: Hitchhiker, IT IS, utility computing, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- SAPs GRC challenge
- SAPs GRC challengeValue of GRCThere's an interesting conundrum in articulating the value of an integrated risk management platform. Namely, that the costs of measuring, monitoring and reporting on multiple regulatory initiatives falls largely outside IT, dispersed among business functions. IT is happy to install siloed solutions because they're...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial services, SECURITY, SAPs GRC, IT IS, risk management platform
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- Updated Skype patches critical and brings high quality video
- Updated Skype patches critical and brings high quality video"Skype is a killer-app...here to stay in the home and even business world"Not in my business world it isn't. I won't let my users install it ever.H.264How does it perform compared with H.264 George?Have you tried Ekiga developers edition or Apple iChat?SKYPE...
- Tags: Corporate communications, E-mail, patch management, IT IS, Skype Technologies S.A., video
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
- The Microsoft fact in Illinois
- The Microsoft fact in IllinoisIt all fits.Software from a single vendor known to work together well. Or, All Microsoft, all the time. No bits and pieces, and software "known" to be comfortable to users supplied without great difficulty to central IT.That's making the "problem" of IT go away.As...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Strategy, Novell Inc., IT IS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- Green IT will get zero traction until IT pays the electric bill
- Green IT will get zero traction until IT pays the electric billIt really depends on the applicationLCDs are a greener solution that have made a difference at many workplaces. People don't think of them being a "green" solution. However, they are a greener solution than CRTs. Green...
- Tags: Strategy, Green IT, information technology, IT Pay, power bill
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- NY's 'Halo 3' launch was no riot, but it was close
- NY's 'Halo 3' launch was no riot, but it was closeToo much hype over just a gameit may be a good game, but it's just a game, the Xbox 360 just a console (same for PS3 and Wii), and none of that will pay the rent, put food on the...
- Tags: Games, game, Halo 3, riot
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- SAB vs. IEED
- SAB vs. IEEDApples and OrangesFor IEED you're treating IT as a part of product design while in SAB it plays the more normal role of a support function to the business.IEED basically has "shadow IT" that just happens to have nothing shadowing it (or nothing to put in its shadow,...
- Tags: Strategy, IT IS, IEED, SAB
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Serena fills cracks between SOA, ALM and SaaS with process-centric mashup-as-a-service platform
- ALM vendor Serena Software is taking a walk on the wild services side in September when it announces the beta release of a platform for mashing up business process applications. Unlike on-demand tools for content- and data-centric mashups, Serena with "Project Vail" has its sights on the...
- Tags: Serena Software Inc., Notion, Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, SOA, Mashup, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Scalent Systems Helps Financial Services Organization Optimize Test and Development
- I had the opportunity to interview the Director of Development of a large multinational financial services organization. Since IT is often considered a competitive advantage for these firms, it didn't surprise me that he asked that neither he nor his organization be named in this post.What was being done...
- Tags: Benefits, Strategy, Dan Kusnetzky, IT IS, Scalent, benefit, financial
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- CIOs embrace Web 2.0 personally
- CIOs embrace Web 2.0 personallyGood article. It shows enterrpise IT is behind the timesI work for a large company and shocked at how little information technology they allow inside our firewalls. No social networking, little in thge way of shared apps, blogs are for geeks...It's sad to see such powerful...
- Tags: Channel management, Web 2.0, IT IS, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
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