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Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune
Comment No-one in their right minds with the skills listed for many of these jobs is going to consider them at the pay being offered Whilst most major corporations continue to rely upon their existing IT infrastructure in their day-to-day tasks, those... [06 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Net education
Comment So we now have the well-educated in the second world offering their tutoring skills online to students in the West. They also offer new and very different business opportunities. Written at London Heathrow and dispatched from a free wi-fi service... [06 Dec 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Software costs under pressure
Comment At least as important is the fact China's own rapidly growing industries have a huge need for IT skills. Factors such as business process outsourcing (BPO), software as a service (SaaS), service-oriented architectures (SOA), along with the rise... [22 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...
Comment Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap' So they want to plug the skills gap ! I've been an IT professional for nearly 20 years, I learnt Cobol, Pascal and others, but I've had to self learn my new skills without any help or assistance. [25 Oct 2007]
How to build an IT department
Comment I took the decision to join the e-skills board and much of the stuff that has come out of the e-skills agenda has led to some progress. We all face this issue of how do you coach people out of a business. [17 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd
Comment While we were sitting together at my PC I asked him why don't you get more IT guys making home visits and he said: "Well, most of them don't have the people skills. Graham Linehan has written a string of popular UK comedy sitcoms, from Father Ted's... [12 Oct 2007]
Paul Coby
AS Profile Coby also takes an active role in wider industry groups and is chairman of Sita, the airline industry IT body, and chairman of the CIO board for IT industry skills group e-Skills UK. A respected statesman and valued spokesman for the CIO community... [12 Oct 2007]
Tech can make or break a merger
Comment Skills Survey 2007Find out the results of this year's Skills Survey: & Continuity: Keep the business moving. Ensure that business continuity is absolutely maintained at all costs and that there are no issues with service delivery as a result... [25 Sep 2007]
Pizza sauce runs in our veins, says Domino's IT chief
Comment Do I have the right team in place, the right skills in place? The second part is all about processes, making sure the business runs efficiently without adding complexity. For example 30 per cent of our business is collection, so what do you do with... [24 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment ¦ Minority Report: A greener Apple ¦ Skills Survey 2007: Offshoring still a hot potato Employers have been complaining about school leavers lacking basic skills for years. Tech-savvy school-leavers 'lack basic skills' [23 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers
Comment But it will most likely take more than 10 to 20 years to see their total displacement as companies slowly figure out that employing someone without tech skills is about as sensible as recruiting people who are illiterate and innumerate. [20 Aug 2007]
Dear silicon.com... ID cards, Auntie's iPlayer, generation web 2.0, robot wars
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week. The McCue Interview: British Energy CIO, Ian Campbell Five virtual world security worries for business Rail passengers to get free... [16 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.07.07
Round-Up Demand for web 2.0 skills has resulted in developers' paycheques rocketing up by 26 per cent in the past 12 months, according to research. Irrespective of the issues facing the modern techie such as skills crisis, security woes and uncommunicative... [13 Jul 2007]
Leader: Google walks the enterprise walk
Leader Is there a skills shortage? Tell us what you think of the IT workforce in silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey. But still the company admitted it would only be complementary to Microsoft's offering and the appeal seemed more a draw for home users than... [10 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
Comment Often the existing back-end technologies have been in place for so long that the skills needed to integrate them are no longer with the company. Post Office operations director and former Safeway CIO Ric Francis says there is little business sense... [02 Jul 2007]
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