Academic Mentoring: How To Give It And How To Get It
[ Source: Boston University ]
January 2008-
Students, trainees, research fellows, and junior faculty all benefit from the direction provided by academic mentors and research supervisors. The literature contains numerous reports on the importance of mentorship in helping facilitate the future success of trainees, documenting benefits such as more productive research careers, greater career satisfaction, better preparation in making career decisions, networking within a profession, and aiding in stress management.1-10 This Commentary describes several key points of advice both for ....
InformationWeek National IT Salary Survey 2007
[ Source: InformationWeek ]
April 2007-
The IT profession is on the rebound. Fewer IT professionals are unemployed, many feel more secure in their jobs, and some are anticipating bonuses linked to personal performance in the coming year.
Information technology as a career path is back on track. IT professionals are earning the highest salaries in the 10-year history of the InformationWeek National IT Salary Survey. Have you heard that ringing sound? That's the headhunters calling. IT professionals are ....
InformationWeek U.S. IT Salary Survey 2008
[ Source: InformationWeek ]
April 2008-
Blame the weakening economy, outsourcing, retiring baby boomers, and an industry-wide mismatch of skills with job titles. Or call it a blip in a nervous economy. No matter what, the results of the 2008 U.S. IT Salary Survey are not pretty. Salaries for business technology professionals are falling. For the first time since InformationWeek began studying salary trends 11 years ago, median pay for the average IT professional has dropped year over year. The good ....
Case Study: Metron Enterprise and Howard County, Maryland
[ Source: eTelemetry ]
July 2008-
Howard County, Maryland, has approximately 3,000 users on its County IT network. Users who engaged in streaming music and inappropriate surfing or had misconfigured PCs, for example, were straining the network and impacting employee use for legitimate work purposes. Limited resources and an inability to monitor network activity left Howard County without any reliable way of identifying the sources of these violations. The IT department would be routinely asked to analyze hard drives for evidence ....
Bloxx Internet Filtering Proves Best Fit for Easton-Bell Sports
[ Source: Bloxx, Inc. ]
October 2008-
Easton-Bell Sports was growing increasingly concerned about its bandwidth consumption, as well as the time IT staff members were spending removing malware from employees' computers. In addition, upper management was eager to assess employee Internet use and its affect on productivity. The rising importance of these issues caused the company to seek out a cost-effective Internet filtering solution.
After extensively evaluating a number of different web filtering solutions, Easton-Bell Sports' ....
17 Ways to Reduce IT Cost
[ Source: Apptio ]
January 2009-
Cost-cutting initiatives gain special prominence in a tough economy. In troubled financial times, however, many CIOs won’t sign off on a new project, unless there are demonstrable quantified savings and the financial impact is clearly identified.
This whitepaper describes how you can identify new cost savings opportunities, precisely quantify the savings, evaluate the project impact, and establish a way to track costs over time for continual cost optimization.
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The Greening of Training: How Sustainability Is Reshaping Organizational Learning
[ Source: SkillSoft ]
February 2009-
More and more companies are making sustainability a highly visible part of their corporate strategy. There are many factors driving companies to go green, from the desire to improve corporate image to competitive differentiation in the market. But whatever the reason, the training department can be a key part of a green strategy. This dovetails nicely with the overall trend in training to align learning with corporate initiatives. If your company is championing a green ....
Recession-Proof Your Business: The Top Five Ways IT Organizations Can Help Companies Survive a Tough Economy
[ Source: Informatica ]
February 2009-
We’ve all seen the headlines. We’ve read the analyst reports. It’s unanimous: IT budgets are shrinking. But the needs of the business are not. In fact, in difficult times, the needs of the business may actually grow.
When times are tough, companies need to home in on those activities that help them operate more efficiently and do more with less. They need to quickly adapt and respond to competitive threats and fluctuating ....
2009 IT Skills and Salary Report
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
March 2009-
How much more could you be earning?
For the second year in a row, Global Knowledge and TechRepublic have partnered to create a comprehensive IT salary survey. With over 14,150 responses, the 2009 report has turned out to be one of this year's most relevant and revealing salary surveys in the industry.
Despite the current economic pressures, the salaries of IT professionals did post a 10% gain over the results reported in ....
Improving Bottom Line Performance Through Precision Forecasting And Scheduling
[ Source: GMT Corporation ]
March 2009-
Whether in a contact center or bank branch environment, workforce managers everywhere face the constant challenge of balancing the yin and yang priorities of service levels and labor costs. This is especially true in today's economic environment where inaccurate forecasts can lead to poor scheduling decisions and can have dramatic impact on bottom line profitability. In this guide, GMT Corp. analyzes how to improve bottom-line performance in contact centers and bank branches through precision forecasting ....