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  • Social media - part 3

    We like our risk management, don’t we? It allows us to identify risks, and take action to mitigate them. Risk Management can and should be applied to social media usage. It makes good sense to manage the risk by having a very clear social media policy.

    Written by Breed Lewis • 12 March 11 10:00
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    All brand new: an amaysim experience down under

    A group of European entrepreneurs have banded together to create a new mobile telecommunications company aimed at the high-volume consumer market, and it even has a local call centre.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 23 Nov. 10 10:44

  • The evolution of the network engineer

    IT is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in recent memory -- yet most IT practitioners (including telecom managers) are only dimly aware of what's happening.

    Written by Johna Till Johnson • 03 July 09 03:11

  • 5 ways to make your company Gen Y-friendly

    Facing a potential onslaught of baby boomer retirements and a smaller pool of Generation X employees to replace them, IT managers who want to create or sustain a Best Place to Work environment will need the additional help of another group of professionals: Generation Y. Also known as Millennials, this group consists of nearly 80 million individuals born roughly between 1979 and 1999. They are the workforce of the future.

    Written by Katherine Spencer Lee • 27 June 08 09:54

  • The Manhattan Effect

    I've been lucky enough to live, work and hang out in both Manhattans - as in New York and Kansas - which makes me kind of an expert on how you can tell the difference between the two.

    Written by Jerry Gregoire • 06 March 07 12:27

  • Hitting to All Fields

    How to break into a new industry and out of an old one without striking out

    Written by Martha Heller • 07 July 06 16:14

  • Serenity Found

    We all know that CIO stands for "Career Is Over". The wag who coined that acronym was undoubtedly referring to the burnout factor that comes with the job and the consequent short tenure of the average CIO

    Written by Dr Steven Berglas • 03 Feb. 06 13:33

  • Recruiters Advice

    With a new year recently begun, it is time for all of us to reassess the past year with an eye to having 2006 be better. Some of you will determine that it may be time to change positions. Others may not, but January always proves to be one of the months executives are most likely to receive calls from search firms.

    Written by Jane Howze • 30 Jan. 06 16:20

  • A Team Starts with Two

    The best way to develop employees is one-on-one coaching, yet too few executives seem interested in making the effort.

    Written by Susan H. Cramm • 08 June 05 14:50

  • How to Develop Your Team

    Techniques for growing IT employees

    Written by Carrie Mathews • 08 June 05 14:38

  • They Don't Care Too Much for Money

    Once again, it behoves CIOs to reward their star performers. But how will they do it? Cutting bonus cheques would be the wrong answer.

    Written by Megan Santosus • 06 Oct. 04 10:14

  • All-Time Low for Employee Morale

    Dissatisfied IT workers have nowhere to go - for now.

    Written by Edward Prewitt • 10 Sept. 04 14:20

  • The Metrics Trap

    Too many CIOs judge implementations by measuring the technical capacity of a project, instead of considering how it has improved their companies' business.

    Written by Michael Schrage • 07 April 04 13:54

  • Small Teams, Big Returns

    CBS IT worked faster, better and cheaper after it split into small teams. The key to its success: setting strong performance goals.

    Written by Alice Dragoon • 06 Feb. 04 09:16

  • Why More Is Less

    Recent evidence shows that multitasking is an enormous waste of your time and your company's money.

    Written by Megan Santosus • 08 Oct. 03 10:20

  • Here in Body Only

    You don't have to do anything to retain employees when they have nowhere to go. But doing nothing now will lead to problems tomorrow

    Written by Megan Santosus • 11 Sept. 03 13:01

  • Big Brother

    With more and more corporate transactions going network, a company's ability to cheaply and thoroughly audit itself leaps by orders of magnitude

    Written by Michael Schrage • 14 July 03 10:46

  • Support Users

    If IT ducks responsibility for training users, it gives up control of innovation.

    Written by Michael Schrage • 05 Feb. 03 15:27

  • The Job-Hunting Abyss

    One of the most challenging aspects of the CIO's career is finding another job. It's a personal journey upon which I've recently embarked, and the strategy I pursued was a particularly risky one. I left my previous job before finding a new one.

    Written by William Crowell • 06 Sept. 02 10:47

  • What's Going On?

    Jobs or no jobs? That is the question. At present, you'd be hard-pressed to find the answer in the press with so many conflicting viewpoints about the employment prospects for an out-of-work IT professional. This was classically highlighted on July 9 when two articles in the general press gave completely contradictory versions.

    Written by Peter Hind • 05 Sept. 02 10:30
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