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Who will hold the offshoring crown in 2020?
News The global financial crisis has given India a bit of breathing room, it's dropped the growth rates. The primary cause is the quality of communications and language skills, the second is that some people... [14 Aug 2009]
How to keep staff happy during the downturn
Comment Consequently, Company B creates a workforce with precisely those business and leadership skills which they require, while equipping employees with skills that allow them to shift roles and... [10 Aug 2009]
Seven ways to boost your workplace confidence
Comment Branson may not project confidence in the conventional sense of the word but his ability to engage and influence people, and to empathise with them in times of crisis, is one that many business leaders looking to boost... [29 Jul 2009]
"It's either Segways or Strangeways"
News Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, head of the school of computing and creative technologies at the University of Abertay, Dundee giving his assessment of the UK's IT skills crisis January There are very few... [23 Dec 2008]
Is there a UK IT skills gap or not?
News Just under half (46 per cent) of respondents to this year's silicon.com Skills Survey are convinced there is a skills crisis in the UK - a slight decrease from last year - while 40 per... [23 Dec 2008]
Skills Survey 2008 in pictures
Photo Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner? Results from the 10th annual silicon.com Skills Survey show a decline in the number of unfilled IT vacancies for the first time in years,... [16 Dec 2008]
Legacy IT holding back insurers
Comment With the global economic crisis well underway, insurers need to examine their IT projects against a combination of strategic goals - including getting bigger by growing revenue; getting leaner by reducing expenses and... [16 Dec 2008]
Financial sector worst hit by IT skills shortage
News Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner? The financial services industry remains the most hampered by an IT skills shortage, according to the 2008 silicon.com Skills... [15 Dec 2008]
Revealed: The top 30 offshoring destinations
News Ian Marriott, research vice president at Gartner, said these countries would be seeking to take advantage of the credit crisis to capitalise on organisations' drive to save costs. The final list included 13 countries... [12 Dec 2008]
Is the UK tech industry ageist?
News Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner? Just over half (52 per cent) of respondents to the exclusive silicon.com 2008 Skills Survey agreed or strongly agreed the IT industry is ageist... [09 Dec 2008]
Editor's Blog: Crisis of confidence for CIOs
Comment So CIOs: this is no time for a crisis of confidence - make your voices heard! Quite recently I was talking to a head of IT who blamed the broader CIO community for failing to address issues that faced them all, such as... [02 Dec 2008]
Do we really need more women in IT?
Comment Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner? Another serious issue affected by the lack of women in IT is the tech skills crisis - e-skills UK has warned... [01 Dec 2008]
Shopping online sees first ever decline
News Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner? Skills Survey 2008 Online shoppers put a stranglehold on their wallets in November, marking the first historic decline in ecommerce sales,... [26 Nov 2008]
Editor's Blog: Is software's future now behind it?
Comment You can find the first story, on the realities of the skills crisis, here. Also - months in the making, the silicon.com 2008 Skills Survey has launched this week. In the coming days... [20 Nov 2008]
37,000 women quit tech for family
News Regaining the lost pool of female talent would go a long way to relieving the UK tech skills crisis, according to the BCS. According to data from IT sector skills council... [14 Nov 2008]
