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The Open Source Revolution
You probably have heard that open source is all about free software. An incomplete assessment at best. Open source goes well beyond that. The open source revolution is fundamentally changing the way businesses and consumers acquire and use software.
Avoid Piecemeal Pitfalls: Use a Whole System Approach to Achieve Diversity Results
Diversity consulting leaders such as Linda Stokes, CEO of the Orlando, Fla.-based firm PRISM International, say piecemeal efforts with narrow scopes are very common in the world of corporate diversity -- usually resulting in frustration and failure.
How Important is Diversity? It Depends on Your Race
Just under half of all respondents said their companies have formal programs in place to encourage diversity in the workforce. The larger the company, the more likely it is to have such initiatives.
The Road to the CIO's Office: Management Training, People Skills Pave the Way
The journey up the corporate ladder to the CIO’s office might start with a series of IT-related jobs, but if you’re well into your career and all you know is technology, your climb into upper management will be a difficult one indeed, according to the successful CIOs interviewed here.
Op-Ed: Engineers May Be Treated As Commodities... But So Are MDs
Engineers who are hired simply for what they can do today rather than what benefits their knowledge and skills might bring tomorrow do have a commodity-like value. Increasingly, when people with specific knowledge or skills are no longer needed, their employers let them go. The landscape is changing dramatically for engineers, but for professionals who are flexible, independent and entrepreneurial, the future is bright.
Moving Forward: KANA CEO Mike Fields, Getting Ahead and Giving Back
The New IT Department: Hiring Back on the Rise
After several years in the economic doldrums, the IT field is showing every sign of resurgence, with new technologies, corporate expansion, and a shortage of talent in specialized areas ramping up employment opportunities
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Diversifying the IT Department - Networkworld.com
Businesses strive to incorporate minorities into the workforce.
Could Your Website Actually Be HARMING Your Business?
Customers worldwide are looking for products & services online, and there is no shortage of sites from which to choose. Broken links, spelling and grammatical errors, html errors, annoying flashing graphics or pop-ups can actually drive visitors away as quickly as they came.
Space-The Next Frontier for IT Professionals
Thousands of other Americans are directly involved in making space the next frontier by working with NASA and hundreds of thousands of others are indirectly involved through other space agencies, suppliers, and contractors. Indeed, as the United States pushes forward with its space program, it appears that NASA, its major contractors (such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman), and its subcontractors will provide interesting opportunities well into the future for African Americans with IT expertise.
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Big Blue Reaches Out: Small Businesses Reap Benefits from IBM Partnerships
Extending a helping hand to small business is nothing new for IBM, but many small-business owners don’t know it, says Johnson, vice president, market development at IBM. Johnson, based in the computer giant’s White Plains, N.Y., office, oversees IBM’s programs for businesses owned or operated by women, Asians, blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans.
The New Face of Techies
A recent survey of chief information officers completed by Robert Half Technology in Menlo Park, Calif., found that help desk/end-user support was ranked number one for the first time in its IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. At 17 percent, the category tied with networking, a longtime top spot on the list of high-demand jobs. Robert Half Technology, a provider of IT professionals on a project and full-time basis, has been tracking IT hiring activity in the United States since 1995.
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Black Data Processing Associates Introduces the BDPA IT Institute
The BDPA IT Institute is a 14-week, distance-learning program that increases technical competence, builds leadership development and forms executive partnerships with academic support from Auburn University.
How Important is Diversity? It Depends on Your Race
Just under half of all respondents said their companies have formal programs in place to encourage diversity in the workforce. The larger the company, the more likely it is to have such initiatives.
A Page From IT Research: Help Systems Learning to Think Like Us
In this article we briefly visit an area of academic research that may impact how software help systems will create wise and truly intuitive software assistance in the near future.
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