Category: IT Management

IT Management

Why we love online calendars (and our bosses)

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…

What happens to IT when global firms retreat

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…

IT staffing: When to retrain, when to hire fresh

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…