Project Management

Apps you can add-on through your business' Google Apps account include free and handy tools to take care of tasks such as accounting, travel organizing, and appointment management. Here's five add-ons worth installing.

With the right setup (which we'll explain), you can access Google Calendar from any Web browser, plug it into your favorite desktop calendar, and manage it from your phone so you can quickly add any item to your schedule no matter where you are.

The following four steps will help you regain control over and deliver a revised project successfully.

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Learning a bit of business lingo and throwing in a few useful applications for "suits" could brighten up the narrative for the battle stressed-techie, according to an expert panel.

You don't need a huge IT budget to collaborate online. Smaller firms can benefit from a breed of free or low-cost online services that support activities like collective editing of documents in real time, brainstorming and long-term project management.

Expert negotiators from the FBI and elsewhere serve up seven surefire negotiation tactics that you can use for business

When companies decide to unplug on-premise servers, ditch the applications housed on them and adopt vendor-hosted software in the cloud, the IT staffers in charge of supporting and maintaining those discarded in-house systems are bound to get nervous.

Some tech execs are looking at the idea of creating logos and slogans to convey who IT is and ensure that business clients won't forget it.

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Efforts to lay blame for a project failure have disastrous effects for both individuals and the organization as a whole.

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Strong project managers do more than just keep projects on track. They drive project teams to produce excellent results. We talk about the top 10 skills you need to do this effectively.rn

His arrival on-site usually means one thing: a big tech project is in trouble. And Jason Coyne's job is to either "kill or cure" those projects. He describes his unusual job in many different ways: marriage counsellor, the Equalizer. relationship guru, project conscience, resolution manager

To help save money, IT groups are being asked to cut back -- in some cases, dramatically -- on their maintenance contracts with vendors. Sometimes things stay broken until IT staffers can figure out the fixes themselves. In the meantime, IT staff involved just cross their fingers and hope that their business users will not notice any ill effects.