personnel in comment and analysis
Services mega-deals not quite so mega
Comment Thus, a conservative estimate for the annual personnel costs Big Blue is picking up in the deals is about $94m. Services providers frequently have to make substantial investments in IT equipment and... [05 Sep 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Company plagues
Comment Before long there are IT and security departments, along with legal, personnel and finance. It becomes necessary to have legal counsel, an accountant and someone to look after personnel and safety affairs. [03 Jun 2004]
Analysis: Does ID management invade workers' privacy?
Comment Organisations are turning to ID management systems to ensure that only authorised personnel can access sensitive data. However, these systems are often criticised for invading employees' privacy. Stewart Baines explains... [10 May 2006]
E-learning: satisfactory, but could do better
Comment At a recent workshop in Germany for the insurance sector, three quarters of all participants (mainly personnel managers) confessed they are simply not interested in e-learning. However, small and medium-sized firms are... [26 Feb 2001]
HP buys Compaq - what next?
Comment Compaq personnel in Houston and beyond are learning about that famous HP way, and hard decisions over product lines have been made. Just two hours before the combined HP-Compaq addresses the world via the gift of... [07 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: the ASP brain drain, EDS, and the growing online ad market
Comment In order to support the myriad of applications ASPs now offer, the ASP needs to acquire skilled personnel with experience of implementing and operating the completed solution. Which came first, the skills shortage or the... [17 Jul 2000]
It's tough being a cyborg
Comment He was strip searched by suspicious security personnel who, with all their legendary delicacy, managed to inflict $56,000 worth of damage to his equipment, Mann claims, including the glasses with which he used to 'see'. [21 Mar 2002]
MoD's 'screw it up and you suffer' approach is the way to go
Comment The overhaul will underpin a whole range of new systems as well as supporting defence personnel out in the field. When the Ministry of Defence revealed the bidders for its £4bn 10-year outsourcing contract this week, it... [27 Jun 2003]
Minority Report: Disney, Pixar and Apple - what happens next
Comment On the face of it, the deal looks more like a Pixar takeover of Disney rather than the other way around, with key Pixar personnel taking over chief creative and executive roles in the new parent company. [03 Feb 2006]
Minority Report: Changing of the guard at Apple?
Comment Although Jobs frequently hands over slots to key personnel during the much-awaited stage shows, to give other execs advanced billing was odd. Is Steve Jobs heading for the exit door at Apple? Seb Janacek speculates on... [01 Sep 2006]
Name the companies abusing fast track visa scheme
Comment The PCG has called on the UK government to clamp down on blue chip companies replacing UK nationals with what it claims are often under-skilled but cheaper personnel from overseas, particularly India. [14 Feb 2002]
Leader: Storage - truly a small business issue
Leader Which is all great, unless you fall into that really small bracket - maybe in a company with a handful of staff and no dedicated IT personnel. Dell and EMC yesterday decided to turn their combined attention to SMEs. [27 May 2004]
BT's excuses run dry
Comment BT said that engineering personnel had been reassigned to fix faults in the emergency flood zones. This meant she was unable to claim compensation. That flood area turned out to be at the top of a hill in Harrogate,... [01 Dec 2000]
CIOs must not fend off risk alone
Comment Likewise do CIOs know as much about regulation as the legal department or as much about enforcing personnel policies as HR? Should IT risk management be the responsibility of the CIO or should it be a company-wide process? [10 Jul 2007]
How to secure today's enterprise
Comment No longer is it enough to put security personnel at the front desk and install a firewall on the network. These days safeguarding the corporate network requires more than just a firewall. Elizabeth Biddlecombe outlines... [08 Mar 2005]
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