Make Your IT Staff Smarter With Digital Libraries
[ Source: Safari Books Online ]
December 2008-
On-demand access to trusted technology information empowers IT workforces
to solve everyday technical challenges and increases productivity. Throw a valuable e-reference tool like a digital library out to a community of IT users, programmers, and business professionals, and they’ll uncover a variety of personal and corporate applications.
MCAD Exam 70-316: Handling Visual C# .NET Exceptions
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
When an application encounters an unexpected situation such as a missing file or input parameter, or a logical error such as performing a division by zero, the application generates exceptions. By default, when an exception is generated, the application terminates and generates an error display. This paper discusses exceptions, which appear as an outcome of unexpected problems during the normal execution of a program.
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 ....
Building Higher Levels Of Critical Thinking With Collaboration
[ Source: Grouputer ]
May 2008-
A new model of learning that integrates online collaborative technology and process-centric learning is slowly emerging in response to the need for improved critical thinking in education and the workplace. If it succeeds, the new model will change "bricks and mortar" learning to a multimodal model where learning occurs in physical and virtual spaces, collaboratively and individually, with real-time input from teachers supported by peer-to-peer collaboration; anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
Harnessing Your Tribal Knowledge
[ Source: Altus ]
November 2009-
Corporations are modern tribes, with their own members, culture, and knowledge. Capturing, saving, and sharing the collective knowledge of the tribe can lead to a more informed and productive organization over the long haul. Most senior corporate leaders would readily agree that the wealth of their organization lies with the knowledge that is locked in the minds and desktops of their employees. The ability to capture and share that knowledge to maintain success and ....
Skills Gaps in the World’s IT Workforce: A CompTIA International Research Study
[ Source: CompTIA ]
September 2008-
This ground-breaking research identifies trends and gaps in IT skills, explores issues surrounding recruiting and hiring, investigates the current and potential IT market growth and demand for IT professionals, and discovers which factors most influence, and are expected to influence, the IT industry.
The IT industry has experienced many changes and much growth in the past decade with the fast pace of technological change and the ever-increasing globalization of business. We believe ....
10 Hot Skills for 2009
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
May 2009-
Whether we are in a down economy, seeing jobs go offshore, or witnessing jobs being cut altogether, there are certain IT skills that will never go out of style. With spending on cost-saving technologies such as virtualization rising, and the maintenance of networking and enterprise Microsoft software keeping IT professionals constantly in demand, here's our top 10 hot skills that will take us from a down economy and beyond.
How to Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
August 2006-
In order to be successful, you must master the persuasion process, which will enable you to deliberately create the attitude change and subsequent actions necessary for persuading others to your way of thinking. In other words, you have to be able to "sell" your ideas in order to make changes in your favor and, in a win-win situation, provide the other side with a fair deal. This entails a process that can appeal to the ....
10 Dying IT Skills
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
June 2009-
There are some things in life, like good manners, which never go out of style, and there are other things, like clothing styles that fall in and out of fashion, but when an IT skill falls out of favor it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to update your skill set
Now What? - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in IT Certification: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
Now what? That question has taken on particular relevance over the last year: 2002. Everyone in information technology that the author speaks with is asking ""Now what?"" The whole IT sector is experiencing a host of emotions as a result of a wide variety of economic and socio-political decisions. It seems that everyone in IT is confused. No one really knows what the direction of IT will be in the coming year.