Training for retirement
Career building isn't for slackers, so don't ease up on the next step: into retirement, says Mary Brandel
Stories by Mary Brandel
Nearing Retirement: No slacking off in career building for the 60-and-older crowd.
At 63, John Wade is working harder than he has ever worked in his career or in his 12 years as CIO at Saint Luke's Health System in Kansas City. If it's midnight and he's toiling at his home computer, he's more likely catching up on the latest in electronic patient record technology than booking a retirement cruise.
HR Gets Strategic
Once focused on cost cutting, today's human resources systems are all about gauging, growing and managing the corporate talent pool.
Bridging the Gap
Relationship managers are crucial liaisons between technology and business, but without proper support, they can end up being distrusted by both.
The trouble with tags
When you hear the litany of reliability and readability woes that plague radio frequency identification (RFID) pilot projects in the supply chain arena, you may wonder how anyone is making any progress with this technology at all.
Secondhand storage is cheaper but also riskier
At ATA Airlines, the practice of buying refurbished storage systems started small, with the purchase of a workgroup-size disk array. Over the past six years, the US$1.2 billion airline bought more and more used storage equipment, including enterprise-size storage systems, tape libraries and eventually Fibre Channel storage-area networks. Today, "there really isn't a case where we wouldn't consider previously owned storage systems," says Paul Smith, director of information services at Indianapolis-based ATA.
Vendor views
The future is unfolding fast in the wireless industry. Computerworld spoke with five top vendors to get their opinions on where the market is heading and what advances IT managers can expect in the coming year.
Banking on technology
It was 1970, and Steve Schutze was in charge of a project to install the first two automated teller machines at the National Bank of Detroit. This was pioneering stuff, even though these stand-alone cash dispensers of 30 years ago were nothing like the real-time, round-the-clock networked machines of today.
Standing out from the crowd
In today's job market, everyone wants to stand out from the crowd, and obtaining a technical certification might seem like a great way to show off your skills. But is it worth the investment of at least several months and hundreds, possibly thousands, of dollars?
Building on IT At Barton Malow
Phil Go, CIO at Barton Malow Co., talks about how IT workers fit into a major construction firm.
Demise of the Skill Premium
You've just interviewed a candidate for an open Oracle Corp. database administrator position. Now what do you do?
The Top Skills to Watch
You want to spark up your career - but with the ever-changing information technology field, it's hard to focus on an area that will still be in demand by the time you've finished the training course.
Linus Launches Linux
Sometimes, the most remarkable events in life are unintentional. Such is the case with Linux, which started out as a student's hobby but has quietly become in the past eight years one of the world's fastest-growing operating systems.
Linux was started in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, then a student at Finland's University of Helsinki. Since then, tens of thousands of volunteer coders have debugged, fixed and enhanced Linux.
Feature: Contractors need not apply?
Technology may be changing at the speed of light, but the skills that are most in demand are surprisingly familiar. Project management, data modelling, business know-how -- surely, those all ring a bell.