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    Think Tank: Managing the talent pool 13 July, 2011 09:04:00

    Think of talent management and we immediately think of managing bright, high potential employees. But although ‘star talent’ individuals are important in any business, just managing stars is not enough. A high performing team means managers must understand the performance and contribution from all the team and manage the talent pool.
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    PCs at a Crossroads 02 November, 2009 10:16:00

    It is amazing to see what happens when the cyclical intersects with the systemic. What I mean is that, based on the current economic condition, everything within IT is being seriously reexamined. Efficiency and ROI continue to be top-of-mind while increasing workforce productivity and innovation are equally essential.
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    Services at a Crossroads 24 July, 2008 08:13:04

    Words are always at risk of being kidnapped by particular industries and applied to ever-larger contexts. Thus, in the world of IT, "services" has come to be applied to all the work that IT companies do that is not about the supply of hardware or software as such, but rather the wide diversity of work associated with their exploitation.
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    The Getting of Wisdom 22 May, 2008 13:10:33

    The next few years are shaping up to be a crossroads for public sector knowledge workers, says Steve Hodgkinson, research director at global advisory and consulting firm Ovum
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    As CIO Role Evolves, IT's Never Easy 14 November, 2007 10:24:27

    Consumer IT in the enterprise is the new challenge.
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    Stop the Presses 03 July, 2007 11:45:00

    The newspaper business is bad and getting worse. The Web is stealing the industry's readers, advertisers, revenues and even its enthusiasm for the business. But as newspapers struggle to respond, lessons for other industries confronting disruptive technologies are emerging
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    You Got a Problem with That, Buddy? 21 June, 2007 12:00:00

    The CIO position, more than most others, is rife with confrontation. It is the hub of change in most companies. You're going to propose a drastic reduction in the systems enhancement budget for each of their departments in order to fund some new development activity. You know they will hate this proposal.
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    Trimming for Dollars 04 August, 2006 15:16:30

    CIOs have been cutting costs for years - and not seeing those savings coming back to IT. That's why you have to learn to cut strategically.
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    The Importance of Cultivating and Transferring Deep Smarts 15 January, 2006 15:37:48

    Excerpt from the book DEEP SMARTS: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom By Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap.
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    Mid-Career Kickers 12 December, 2005 12:49:24

    At mid-career, your biggest challenge might be overcoming your own complacency.
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    Creative Differences 11 October, 2005 13:08:14

    Just because marketing departments and IS departments traditionally behave like oil and water doesn't mean that the two functions can't coexist . . . in a perfect world
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    Data breach: Only 16 per cent self-identified 08 February, 2012 13:26:00

    POS system attacks come of age in Australia.
    Only 16 per cent of organisations that faced a breach in 2011 detected it prior to a notification by a third party, according to an analysis of investigations conducted last year by Trustwave's SpiderLabs security team.
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    Symantec expects Anonymous to publish more stolen source code 08 February, 2012 06:12:00

    Confirms that BitTorrent file is pcAnywhere's source code after sting operation fails
    Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.
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    Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere 07 February, 2012 18:17:00

    The hacker group had earlier released emails between a hacker and a person said to be a Symantec representative
    Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
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    Kaspersky Lab CEO backs out of IPO plans 08 February, 2012 02:10:00

    Founder buys back 20 percent stake
    Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky has cancelled plans for the firm to go public, announcing his intention to buy back a 20 percent stake sold to a private equity investor a year ago.
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    Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report 08 February, 2012 01:34:49

    Japan named as primary source of DDoS attack traffic for Q4 2011
    Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks.
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