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RSS skillThe Director's Cut: You are not alone!
Comment The whole corporate IT industry is affected, to a greater or lesser degree, by change leadership, cost savings, skill shortages, project management and priorities, customer/supplier disputes and more. [25 Jun 2003]
Sun woos .Net programmers
News The tool that Sun will demonstrate at JavaOne is aimed at developers who have a skill level equivalent to that needed to use Visual Basic tools, said Rich Green, vice president of tools at Sun. Sun Microsystems will show off a new, simplified Java... [23 May 2003]
Managing convergence - the key points every company should know about
Comment The skill now, of course, is to manage the convergence process effectively. Doing it right takes ongoing management, says Anthony Plewes, and there are a number of things to consider. Exactly when to adopt a converged network has been one of the... [14 May 2003]
IBM's T-Rex mainframe set to roar
News The systems, while powerful, "still require pretty specialised skill sets (and) are still pretty expensive per unit performance," he said. IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe on Tuesday, according to sources close to the company. [12 May 2003]
Cherish a good project manager
Comment It was cited by 34.6 per cent of our 3,830 respondents as a key missing skill in 2003 compared with 35.7 per cent in 2002. That's by far the most sought after of any skill (next best are 'leadership' with 29.7 per cent and 'Programming languages (C... [03 Apr 2003]
Skills Survey 2003: Where are all the leaders?
Comment Nearly 35 per cent report project management as the non-IT skill that is in shortest supply, with 30.2 per cent reporting leadership skills as the hardest to find. Project management, leadership, long working hours - these are the most important... [02 Apr 2003]
Meta Group Quarterly: The five most important trends for CIOs
Comment Leading CIOs are creating their web services skill base and deriving business value by applying web Services technology to improving business processes via internal application integration. In a new series of articles for silicon.com leading... [28 Mar 2003]
Skills Survey 2003: The full UK results
News The one skill to stand out here is Linux - it's the only one to have seen an increase in demand over the past 12 months. Hiring staff from overseas is an essential way of filling short term skill gaps [27 Mar 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: Listen and get IT right
Comment It is all too easy to dive in to IT projects, thinking they are a solution in themselves. In the second in their series of columns for silicon.com, Brunel University's Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett advocate beginning with one of the... [14 Mar 2003]
Sun pumps up Scottish facility
News The company has said the skill and education level of the local workforce in Linlithgow was crucial to its choice as the global hub for the programme. Sun Microsystems has spent $57m upgrading its manufacturing plant in Scotland, a facility which... [26 Feb 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Who’ll do the dirty work?
Comment Set up as a key part of a rushed privatisation, it seemed Railtrack saw its core skill as making money out of railway assets. Now we have a clear indication from the son of Railtrack that even a well established technology like the railway takes... [10 Feb 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Raw data indigestion
Comment Much traditional skill remains evident in the creation of newspapers. Travelling up and down England as I do, it is interesting to see how other train passengers spend their time. Despite the limitations caused by the moving train, many of them are... [14 Jan 2003]
Devil's Advocate: The chauvinism of ebusiness
Comment British retailers are renowned for their skill, yet nearly all have retreated from their overseas ventures. Should retail, corporate procurement, tourism and financial services naturally be revolutionised by the web? [10 Dec 2002]
Outsourcing patterns shifting in economic downturn
News He added: "IT is now seen as a critical part of the business by most companies and they are therefore still keen to have certain skill sets permanently onsite. They are also demanding much more from support and maintenance suppliers than was... [20 Nov 2002]
India to get $400m Microsoft investment
News Today, India is of strategic importance to our business and will continue to be so as its developer and skill base continues to grow," said Gates, who was visiting India for the third time. By Winston Chai [12 Nov 2002]
