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IT morale drops to all-time low, study says

IT morale drops to all-time low, study saysWow..IT workers are not happy, you think? What if we started outsourcing CEO's overseas, started cutting back on their training, salaries, and treated them like shoe manufacturers, I'll bet they would be unhappy too. I'll bet some overpaid HR exec did this study.In...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Saving Money, job, morale, information technology, MORALE IMPROVES

Discussion threads 2004-06-09

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Learning from the weak signals of failure

Sometimes a refusal to listen . . .Sometimes it's a refusal of top level management to listen to lower level employees as well. NASA was notorious for having unsatisfied employees who knew key facts about issues, but ignored them, even if the employee was proactive about trying to contact somebody...

Tags: Team management, weak signal

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

10 reasons why e-readers make sense in the enterprise

TechRepublic guest post: In case you haven’t heard, e-readers are making an impact. They’ve been around for some time, but only now (thanks, in part, to Amazon’s Kindle) are they being taken seriously. The e-readers’ biggest fan is the avid reader, but this doesn’t have to (and most likely won’t)...

Tags: E-reader, Employee, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-07

14 ways IT screws up projects

14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...

Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

White iPhone 3Gs prone to hairline cracks?

White iPhone 3Gs prone to hairline cracks?It's a "feature" of injection molding[url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/09/29/apple_denies_cube_is_cracking/] It was a feature in the Apple Cube too! [/url]Don't worry Apple fans, it improves your [b]USER EXPERIENCE!!![/b] There is no problem. Look the other way. If you insist that it is a problem, it is the fault...

Tags: WIRELESS, White iPhone 3Gs, Apple Inc., 3G, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?

Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another day--or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their...

Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Construction, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-13

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

MacBook+Air+Diary-Day+20%3A+Cutting+the+cord

MacBook+Air+Diary-Day+20%3A+Cutting+the+cordDecent BonusIt's a decent bonus if you already have AT&T DSL, but I'm not going to switch to a slower service to get access at Starbucks/McDonalds for free. The airport service is much more valuable for travellers, for sure.Many people are already above a 3mb download speed at home,...

Tags: Notebooks, Wi-Fi, Network technology, airport service, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, wireless, Starbucks Corp., MacBook Air Diary-Day 20, Ethernet

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Intel to get widespread restructuring

Intel to get widespread restructuringNext they'll follow Sun's lead...... and put executives into the same office to stare at each other all day. This is said to be productive of ideas.A reorg need not require substantial efforts. With current software it's possible to redraw all the lines in...

Tags: Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-27

HP to slash about 14,500 jobs

HP to slash about 14,500 jobs14,500 jobs "globally"?That means 14,400 jobs "in the US" and maybe 100 jobs "across Asia and Canada"...And Bill Gates says...we need more tech people coming out of universities. He is totally full of rhetoric and has lost touch with the realities of capitalism!In ALL...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Hewlett-Packard Co., job, Internet, Internet sales tax

Discussion threads 2005-07-19

More overtime tussles for tech companies?

More overtime tussles for tech companies?Shouldn't people get paid for the hours they work?There was recently a big project where I work that just HAD to be by a certain date (top dogs overpromising more than they could reasonably deliever ... they seem to be pretty good at that). Those...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Benefits, Operational accounting, salary, overtime

Discussion threads 2005-05-17