Stress and lack of work/life balance in the IT workplace is taking such a toll on women in the industry that 41 percent of respondents to a recent survey reported they were considering leaving their jobs.
What comes to mind when you hear the word e-business? Speed? Intuition? Daring? Seat-of-the-pants? | How about metrics? Bottom line? ROI? Value? For all the attention that's been paid to the first set of words, you don't hear much about the second.
No rules! No fear! Everything you know is obsolete. That's the Internet mantra, and for a while, even the stock market played the game. But as the Nasdaq bubble has deflated, Internet exhilaration has yielded to practical concerns like quality.
Bogus budgets, missing sponsors, communication breakdowns, scope creep: these are just a few of the 'gotchas' that can cripple or hamper a project, and all project managers have a tale about one that brought them to their knees. Four managers tell their stories . . . anonymously. Kathleen Melymuka reports
In a setback to its goal of fostering made-to-order mass retailing of its cars, General Motors Corp. yesterday said it's dropping a proposed investment and software development deal with The Reynolds and Reynolds Co. that was aimed at providing Web-based technology and services to GM's dealers.
The commute: One Monday morning, Ken O'Neill, CIO of the government of Nunavut, left Ottawa for a three-hour flight north to Iqaluit, the capital of the new Canadian territory. The plane couldn't land because of bad weather, so it continued on to the next scheduled stop, Rankin Inlet, about 700 miles west across Hudson Bay. From there, the best choice was to continue about 700 miles farther west to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, then south to Edmonton and down to Calgary. Finally, O'Neill took the red-eye back east to Ottawa just in time to catch the next morning's flight to Iqaluit.
Yahoo Inc. and the Recording Industry Association of America Inc. (RIAA) Wednesday announced an agreement on terms and conditions for music broadcasts across Yahoo properties on the Internet.
When you've got a big job - like searching the universe for signs of intelligent life - you need all the help you can get. That was the idea behind the May 1999 launch of SETI@home, an imaginative application of distributed computing that could have far-reaching implications - for business.
On July 1, 1998, TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. and Nova Chemicals Corp. completed the biggest merger in Canada's history. But for their information technology organizations, the challenge was just beginning. Although the two giants of Canadian wholesale natural gas had complementary businesses, you'd be hard-pressed to find two more radically different IT shops.
Ms. MIS Jill Rosenthal had been tending bar for seven years when she realized she was going nowhere. Because she had an interest in art, she enrolled in a program in new-media skills sponsored by the city of San Francisco. "I've always been good at math," she says. "This was a chance to use that side as well as my creativity."
When you've got a big job - like searching the universe for signs of intelligent life - you need all the help you can get. That was the idea behind the May 1999 launch of SETI@home, an imaginative application of distributed computing that could have far-reaching implications - for business.
In two years, European companies may well be dictating the shape and future of the computer industry as utility, accessibility, mobility and user friendliness woo customers away from the "brute processing power" offered by American firms. That was one of several warnings voiced by Jerry Gregoire, former CIO at Dell Computer Corp. and PepsiCo Inc., during Monday's keynote speech at ABT Corp.'s Project Leadership Conference here.
The hungriest IT labour market in history is a fussy eater. If it wants sushi and all you can offer is quiche, you're out the door quicker than stale bread.
Companies selling to consumers via the Internet may be relying too much on data and too little on knowledge as they try to get closer to online consumers and still protect people's right to privacy. And it's up to information technology managers to set the balance straight.
The hungriest information technology labour market in history is a fussy eater. If it wants sushi and all you can offer is quiche, you're out the door quicker than stale bread.