Tag: IT

  • I.T. Pros Share Their New Year’s Resolutions

    Debra D’Agostino

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    Jeff Peterson, CIO of UNICCO Service Company, a $700 million facilities and equipment management company, has big plans for 2007. He’ll be laying the technology groundwork for the Newton, Mass.-based firm, which maintains offices, production plants and heavy equipment for more than 1,000 clients, to increase its revenues to $1 billion in the next few… Read more

  • This Happy Breed: IT Workers Who Like Their Jobs

    This Happy Breed: IT Workers Who Like Their Jobs

    Deborah Rothberg

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    When the majority of people talk about work, it’s almost undoubtedly followed up with a complaint. From "Dilbert" comics to the movie "Office Space," the grumblings are remarkably similar: too little pay, too many hours, no respect, bad chairs, mean bosses, stifled creativity, under-funded projects, lousy equipment and an assault of busy work. Hearing enough… Read more

  • Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success

    Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success

    Channel Insider Staff

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    The key to project success is learning from what works as well as what doesn’t work . Baseline has compiled a list of best practices drawn from nearly 230 case studies we’ve written in the last five years. Lesson 1: Business processes should set the agenda, not technology. Toyota Motor is on track to pass… Read more

  • IT Temping Revenue Surges

    IT Temping Revenue Surges

    Deborah Rothberg

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    IT temporary staffing firms saw 13.7 percent median revenue increase in the third quarter of 2006 over the same period last year, according to a report released on Dec. 13. The report, issued by contingent workforce analyst firm Staffing Industry Analysts, of Los Altos, Calif., showed that temporary demand for white collar professions grew the… Read more

  • Is Your IT Strategy Wanting?

    Peter Coffee

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    You’d think that the deep-dyed techies of eWeek Labs would have been pleased by November’s mainstream media coverage of popularly priced desktop supercomputing. Unfortunately, the supercomputer in question was Sony’s PlayStation 3, and that coverage had more to do with stalled waiting lines outside big-box stores than with stalled instruction pipelines in the Sony game… Read more

  • The 30 Most Important IT Trends for 2007

    The 30 Most Important IT Trends for 2007

    Channel Insider Staff

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    When it comes to IT, change may very well be the only thing CIOs can depend on in 2007. That’s what the editors at CIO Insight found when we took each of the 13 surveys we conducted in 2006 and put them under the microscope to project next year’s 30 major trends. The first 2007… Read more