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IT Staffing – CIOs Finally Ready to Start Hiring Again

After years of penny pinching and putting off key software and hardware implementations, IT executives now say they’re ready to start hiring again. It was the worst of times these past three, four years and IT workers suffered as much as more as most. While companies across all industries were busy pink-slipping millions of workers, […]

IT Security – Gartner: IT security spending to remain steady, but not a top CIO priority

A top research firm predicts that IT security spending will remain steady through 2011 with identity management as the top focus, but also suggests that CIOs still don’t rank security projects among their high-priority initiatives. Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. will announce Thursday that during the next 12 months, it expects that enterprises will spend approximately […]

Information Technology – IT’s human energy crisis

An essential question for all IT leaders to ponder is whether their IT organization is exothermic — one that releases positive energy) or endothermic — one that sucks energy out of the enterprise) Word association time: When I say "IT energy," what do you think of? After everything that’s been written in the past couple […]

Information Security – Some words about Information Security

Contributed By: Jorge Mieres Organizations are increasingly dependent on their computer networks and a problem affecting them, no matter how small, can compromise the continuity of operations, a situation which inevitably results in economic loss. An increasing number and complexity of new computer attacks, becoming more specialized skills whose goals are an economic nature for […]

IT News – How to Build IT-Business Alignment

The first practical guide to building IT-business alignment. Year after year, IT survey results inevitably state that one of the top priorities for the coming year will be to align IT with the business. It is as if alignment is some unattainable and mysterious process and IT leaders prefer to avoid it in fear of […]

Job Tips and Job News – Projected Increase in Hiring

The Robert Half Professional Employment Report projects a 3% increase in hiring for the third quarter.  It’s obviously not tremendous growth, but it is movement in the right direction. Overall, a net 3% (6% increase, 3% decrease) of surveyed executives said they plan to increase the number of full-time employees in professional occupations in the third quarter. This is […]

Job Tips and Job News – Does working in IT bring its own extra stress factor?

Due to organisational position of the IT department, some IT staff can experience higher stress levels Recently I watched a TV show “Stress – Portrait of a killer” on Australia’s ABC. It explained, based upon research by Robert Sapolsky and others, that people lower in the corporate hierarchy, in general, have a higher level of […]