skills
RSS skillsIBM bags world's top outsourcing spot
News A panel of IAOP experts judged the outsourcing companies on revenue, growth, number of employees, skills and training, technical and business certifications, management track record and customer service. [24 Apr 2007]
The Value Proposition: IP - a new metric for the Information Age
Comment Dead things are valued more highly than people, skills and ideas, and ratios such as ROI, ROA and ROE (Return On Investment, Assets and Equity) quantify the efficiency of a company at creating accounting profits from... [25 Jan 2000]
Tech key to €250m Linde and BOC merger savings
News Dew said: "We had a common understanding between both legacy organisations that a bedrock of SAP-enabled business processes was important, and great people, knowledge, skills and capability across the world in... [27 Mar 2007]
Open source security is cool for schools
News Paul Shoesmith, Becta's assistant director of technology policy and delivery, said in a statement: "Shibboleth should be adopted as an integral component in the strategic approach to the future development of ICT in education,... [03 Oct 2005]
Whitehall tots up millions in Linux swap
News He said: "Microsoft people cost more than Linux people but these type of [Linux] skills are not necessarily easy for the government to get hold of. It has emerged that the government's decision to swap Linux for... [01 Jun 2001]
E-envoy says: "I swore blind I wouldn't take this job"
News A lot of effort is going into making sure the disadvantaged part of the population has access, skills and the confidence to get online," he said. He agreed to become e-envoy on an interim basis in October, following the... [01 Feb 2001]
New tech not enough to boost productivity
News Like all Chancellors, Gordon Brown has struggled against the reluctance of UK businesses to invest enough in capital, skills and technology, said Philpott. Businesses must rethink their attitude towards managing their... [21 Feb 2006]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Ramsay said: "We had to make sure that as we adopted into the new mail environment people would have the skills to use it. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as a service by adopting Google... [10 Jul 2008]
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study The college also has green aspirations and has received an energy grant from the Learning and Skills Council to replace its CRT screens with more efficient LCD monitors. Oaklands College near St Albans is planning to... [02 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: The great recovery disaster
Comment Experience, skills and brains are the best fallback for achieving a quick response because there are no textbook definitions of disaster. But how many plans are based on fragile theory rather than practical experience,... [01 Sep 2008]
US readies for outsourcing backlash
News Americans who think that foreign workers are no match for US workers in knowledge, skills and creativity are mistaken. Feeling political pressure from Congress over the loss of US tech jobs to offshore workers, the... [08 Jan 2004]
The Director's Cut: My room 101
Comment The Director's Cut: Skills crisis? I want to tell you what to consign to the fires of hell. And remember, I said what, not who! So in the next 500 words I will destroy forever our biggest obstacles, challenges and hassles. [24 Apr 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Business ethics
Comment Moreover, skills relevant to the effective operation of companies are quite out of fashion. Is the phrase 'business ethics' an oxymoron? Two recent quotes from silicon.com's CIO Forum particularly made me wonder. [03 Jan 2006]
Naked CIO: Who cares about industry experience?
Comment Technology, finance and marketing are all about method and approach at this level - skills which are easily portable between companies and sectors. CIOs should be able to move between industries as freely as their... [06 Oct 2008]
The Bloor Perspective: Wi-Finding, dirty money and techs in the City
Comment Money laundering legislation is already generating an increase in demand for people resources, skills and technology to detect and report what may be described as suspicious transactions in the financial services sector. [09 Jan 2004]
