How Outsourcing Can Help Recession-Proof Your Company
[ Source: Infuze Technologies Inc. ]
July 2009-
The economic downturn has forced many companies in the U.S. and Europe to reduce spending across the board. For the information technology organization in these companies, this financial hardship means falling behind in the fast-moving Web service-oriented economy. Outsourcing with the right offshore development partner can overcome this problem. It can enable companies to maintain an aggressive strategy of new Web application development in the face of budget reductions of up to 70 percent.
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 ...
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 ...
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 of ...
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 news ...
2009 IT Salary Survey: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects
[ Source: InformationWeek ]
April 2009-
Raises are notably smaller than a year ago, and the pay shifts track the industries and regions hardest hit during this recession. Job security’s shrinking, and concerns are rising again about the IT career path. In all, though, IT careers are looking safer than many others in this economic downturn. Get all the findings in InformationWeek's comprehensive, annual IT Salary Survey.
Enterprise 2.0 People & Culture: HR Management Challenges & Opportunities
[ Source: Enterprise 2.0 Conference ]
October 2010-
This paper examines how social media applications are influencing the workforce and how these technologies can be implemented to achieve
core organization performance goals and improving business processes.
Understanding how to gain greater value and flexibility from the new highly-engaged workforce in conjunction with ‘Enterprise 2.0’ processes
and technologies to effectively support critical business functions is a major challenge for organizations.
We examine the changing workforce and what they expect from a ...
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.
Explore the 17 ...
Building Your IT Staff: Essential Experience and Skill Sets for Tomorrow’s Challenges
[ Source: SkillSoft ]
August 2009-
Today's IT departments must be true business partners, actively engaged in serving internal and external customers, and aligned with company goals. IT leaders discuss how educating and training IT professionals for leadership leads to high-performance, business-savvy tech teams.
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 our 2008 ...