By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Intu has partnered with L Marks to launch a startup incubator programme to help advance UK retail and cater to modern consumer habits …read more Source:: Careers
Category: IT Management
IT Management
Why we love online calendars (and our bosses)
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•By Sharky IT pilot fish gets an email one morning from his boss: Can we reschedule our half-hour one-on-one meeting from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.? “That meeting is supposed to be biweekly, though we haven’t had it for six weeks because emergent management events keep preempting it,” says fish. “But I replied ‘Sure’ and…
NHS loses digital director Beverley Bryant to private sector
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) The director of digital transformation at NHS Digital has led several key technology programmes in the health service, but is moving to work for a supplier …read more Source:: Careers
Why and how men in the technology industry have helped women progress
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Many have argued gender parity will not happen in the technology industry without help from the top. Since the top is predominantly male, we’ve reached out to some of the men in the industry who are helping to drive tech equality …read more Source:: Careers
What happens to IT when global firms retreat
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•By Bart Perkins The early 1990s were a wonderful time for global firms. China, India and the countries of the former Soviet Union opened their markets, and the European Economic Area (now the EU) was established. Businesses began to standardize their operating model and created, in the words of IBM’s CEO Sam Palmisano, “the globally…
Microsoft shakes up Computex with mixed reality showcase
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•By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Mixed reality could be the next big boom for PC manufacturers, with several Windows headsets joining Microsoft’s own HoloLens …read more Source:: IT Hardware
IDG Contributor Network: Fastest growing tech skills and certifications in 2017: 30 and 30
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•By David Foote [Author’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series highlighting the fastest growing and highest paying certified and noncertified tech skills at 3,038 U.S. and Canadian employers.] If you’re new to this space you may be unaware that more employers than ever are paying their tech workers extra cash over and…
IT staffing: When to retrain, when to hire fresh
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•By Tam Harbert As more companies undertake digital transformation projects, having the right IT professionals with the right skills has become more important than ever. IT managers gearing up for such projects say they particularly need experts in big data, analytics and cybersecurity — the very skill sets that are in acute short supply. Even…
IDG Contributor Network: Self-checkout: What shoppers want to do is rarely what they end up doing
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•By Evan Schuman One of the first things retail executives learn is that shopper surveys are horrible indicators of what shoppers will do in stores. Asked if they would make purchases at a breached retailer, they’ll routinely say no. But quarterly earnings betray the truth that being breached has just about zero influence on revenue.…
Meet ADP’s ‘business anthropologist,’ putting human thought behind chatbots
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•By Mary K. Pratt Martha Bird has one of the more unusual positions in the technology space: She’s a business anthropologist. Bird, who ran a family farm in New Hampshire before earning an anthropology Ph.D., has developed her craft over 15-plus years at a variety of organizations — a nonprofit, a telecommunications company and an…