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Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?

News Instead the key is to treat outsourcers as an arm of the business, with customers expecting suppliers to have intimate knowledge of their workings and to get access to top-flight skills across the globe from their suppliers.

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News These smaller "tier two and three cities" will be needed to provide about 50 per cent of the required skills in both ITO and BPO, where talent shortage remains a large constraint, according to the report.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News Even if they can find cheaper labour or more generous tax incentives in other countries, they will struggle to find a similarly large supply of experienced technical and language skills. He said: "This is particularly beneficial for BPO [business...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Wanted: Women must save IT industry

News Women hold the key to plugging a critical skills shortfall that is affecting the entire UK tech industry, says the IT & Telecoms Insights 2008 report by e-skills UK based on Gartner research. The telecommunications industry's need for new skills...

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

Open source to go mainstream, says Gartner

News However, Gartner argues that at the operating-system level, Linux deployments are showing smaller benefits in total cost of ownership as it is applied to more demanding projects, because of the technical skills required to use it: "Much of the...

Tags: gartner, linux, open source

[07 Apr 2008]

Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News According to the report, the population of highly skilled international software professionals jumped by 26,000 in the UK between 2000 and 2007 as "the almost universal rollout of computing and internet facilities increased the demand for...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

Police backs calls for e-crime unit

News He said: "The NHTCU had a national remit to deal with IT related crimes, it was a hub that could take cyber crime reports from the 43 forces and ensure that somebody with the requisite skills was able to deal with it.

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, crime

[12 Mar 2008]

We need more tech training, says small business

News The association, which has 12 million member companies, had organised the event to remind European governments of the importance of e-skills training for smaller European businesses to remain competitive.

Tags: europe, sme, skills, medium

[09 Mar 2008]

'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work

News Speakman said: "If you audit the technology that you've already invested in, audit the people that you've got and the skills that they have then you could really start to drive some additional productivity improvements - and that goes straight to...

Tags: skills, facebook, social networking, kids

[03 Mar 2008]

Google takes aim at Microsoft's SharePoint

News Dave Girouard, general manager of Google's enterprise unit, said: "Creating a team website has always been too complicated, requiring dedicated hardware and software, as well as programming skills. The new service, the latest stage in the internet...

Tags: google, sharepoint, jotspot, microsoft

[28 Feb 2008]

Oracle contractor shortage predicted

Oracle contractor shortage predicted

News Oracle's success in growing its software business last year is now translating into a rise in jobs requiring Oracle skills being advertised and Oracle is already the second most in-demand skill for contract jobs in 2008, according to the...

Tags: oracle, jobs, skills, demand

[27 Feb 2008]

Vodafone boosts apprenticeship scheme

News Robinson told silicon.com Big Red has been running apprenticeship schemes in partnership with the government's Learning and Skills Council for around four years - and currently has about 1,600 apprentices across the business.

Tags: jobs, skills, vodafone, programme

[25 Feb 2008]

Open source gains <strong>business</strong> credibility

Open source gains business credibility

News There are more people and products available with those skills and we don't have to worry about the underlying technology. The use of open source is on the rise in the corporate IT environment as organisations look to cut the cost of developing and...

Tags: cio jury, microsoft, linux, open source

[22 Feb 2008]

Watch out - here comes Generation Virtual

News Gartner says the rise of a so-called 'Generation Virtual' - defined by their preference for the use of digital media channels - means companies will need new skills and techniques to engage with consumers.

Tags: crm, sell, web 2.0, gartner

[20 Feb 2008]

IT skills shortage hits 10-year high

News It predicts that those workers with business analysis, network support, .NET Oracle, SAP, VMware, web development and project management skills will be in high demand over the next two years. The IT sector is suffering its worst shortage of skills...

Tags: it, skills shortage, skills, workers

[11 Feb 2008]

Fall in students applying to be IT teachers

News The skills shortage could be set to take a turn for the worse if an early year drop in the number of students applying for postgraduate IT teacher training courses continues. Only physics, business studies, biology and chemistry show bigger drop...

Tags: skills, techie, skills shortage, training

[07 Feb 2008]

Want to make CIO? Then don't go into tech…

News The findings reflect the views of silicon.com's CIO Jury which agreed techies lack the business and leadership skills to operate at board level. Check out silicon.com's guide to the top five CIO skills.

Tags: cio, board, it, skills

[06 Feb 2008]

Outsourcing 'increases IT costs'

News Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, said outsourcing only usually saves money by reducing resource requirements, although benefits can include better experience and access to technical and management skills.

Tags: outsourcing, cio jury, cost savings, cio

[31 Jan 2008]

Virtual tech will 'kill the office'

News But if in fact I could walk up to the virtual support desk and meet the avatar of the virtual support person which would then find somebody in the company that has the right skills to actually help me that could become of great value.

Tags: nortel, second life, wireless, person

[31 Jan 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News Inevitably the post-Christmas January blues prompts many people into looking for a new career or job and recruitment agencies predicted a healthy flow of new candidates and continued high demand for tech skills in this analysis of the 2008 IT job...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

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