by Stuart Crawford Do you have a passion for IT? Back in November 2008, I lost my passion for technology. The perfect storm of why I hated technology had been brewing for
If you're not particularly tech-savvy, then purchasing, maintaining, and securing technology for your business can be a confusing situation to navigate. You may already know plenty about what you should do, but what
What kinds of skills and best practices can you learn by reading How to run your business by The Book – the recent offering from leadership guru Dave Anderson? Chapter titles make that
A plunging stock market, crumbling budgets, layoffs and restructurings: So much of today's news is bad, so much of it can adversely affect your career, and so much of it is maddeningly beyond
Jonathan Heiliger, VP Technology operations for social networking giant Facebook, has come a long way from his first hire, in his teens: "In my late teens I was working at Stanford University. I
With a faltering economy resulting in increased jobs cuts and corporate belt tightening, security analysts are warning companies to be especially vigilant about protecting their data and networks against disgruntled employees.As it is,
It's been a tumultuous year, and IT professionals have not been excluded from the heart-stopping excitement. What has surprised me immensely in the past month, however, is a sudden shift to pessimism. People's
Sharing a common customer information management system could save Ontario utilities millions of dollars – savings that could potentially be passed on to consumers.Such a shared system has been created by London's Hydro
U.S. presidential nominating conventions used to be criticized as "smoke-filled rooms" because of the cigars that party politicians smoked while they decided on a candidate. Now the delegates are toting Blackberries instead of
I have always found the phrase "IT and the business" to be ironic. "And" typically connotes connection and unity, yet in this context, it is a divider. IT, this phrase suggests, may work
In a Web-enabled world populated by buyers with highly developed personal preferences, Canadian retailers must learn to abandon traditional mass marketing strategies and adopt more customer centric approaches to selling.Ironically, in their rush
What could be easier than filling an entry-level job opening? You just match the skills you need, narrow the candidates down to those you click with in the interview and then go with
Success is not easy or simple. Even in the best of times, workplaces are fraught with changing conditions, political jockeying and limited room for advancement. And these are not the best times.Yet some
Here's a sobering statistic: Eighty percent of enterprise IT functions are being duplicated by folks outside of the IT department, says Hank Marquis, director of ITSM (IT systems management) consulting at Enterprise Management
