Monday, January 17, 2011
A CIO's take: Good consultants, bad consultants The chief information officer of CareGroup HealthCare System reflects on what works well with outside helpers, what doesn't and what it's like being in their shooes
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Recovery train could leave IT jobs behind As the economy begins to regain strength, companies are expected to increase spending. But many IT managers are expected to show caution in hiring new workers...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Becoming an IT consultant: Do's, don'ts, disasters to avoid But do you have what it takes, or even know what it takes, to strike out on your own?
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Montreal event pits developers against time Blitzweekend is designed for people with day jobs and students attending classes. One of the organizers says today’s short innovation cycle means if you can’t finish a project in a weekend, it’s not a good idea.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Job-hunting (and hiring) made easy Computerworld US's recent jobs survey and the Q3 results from the Yoh Index of Technology Wages offer information on what consultants can make, the right skill sets and recruiting tips
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Canadians taking baby steps in bridging IT, business gap When it comes to IT maturity in the enterprise, Canada is generally in its infancy. This according to a recent study by IDC Canada Ltd. that measured the progress of IT in the business environment, where the extent to which corporate information systems serve business needs determine the level of IT maturity
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Internet consulting firms promise profits for the non-Net savvy Internet consulting franchisors promise to make "Internet business experts" out of franchise holders. However, industry insiders caution that – much like other schemes on the Net – Internet franchises too are a "buyer beware" industry. 
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Siemens squirms in slush fund scam Siemens is squirming on the hook of the investigations into bribery, embezzlement and tax evasion. 
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Consultant's competency questioned over city project A computer consultant who billed Philadelphia's government more than US$1.4 million (C$1.6) for her work on the Project Ocean water billing system has come under scrutiny from the city's controller.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Difficult software crossings Microsoft Corp. has spent a considerable amount of time, money and energy trying to convince corporate IT shops that moving from Windows to Linux servers wouldn’t make sense — but at least for now, it’s not clear it had to bother. 
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Power to the people Designing and deploying a pan-Canadian health information system is a colossal, and challenging task – as the iPHIS project illustrates. However, technology and project management are not the biggest challenges in extreme IT deployments, according to a veteran IT project director with the Canadian armed forces. 
Monday, May 31, 2004
On track to better customer service In the fiercely competitive freight transportation business, CN Rail has moved to the top of its class by emulating the highly responsive and reliable capabilities of the trucking industry. A high-performing IT department has enabled them to do it. 
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Economy forces contractors to consider salaried positions Taking the leap from a salaried position with a stable company to a contracting job can be exciting, lucrative and freeing, and many IT professionals rode out the dot-com bubble by doing so.
Sunday, May 26, 2002
KPMG on track to sell German consulting arm KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft AG is on track to sell its strategic IT consulting business in the German-speaking region of Europe before the end of June. But the Berlin company remains tight lipped about who the buyer could be.
Thursday, November 22, 2001
Cost control key to IT projects, say experts He may not have said it out loud, but Kelvin Cantafio’s message was clear — good IT planning is the difference between life and death in his organization.
Wednesday, November 21, 2001
Cost control key to IT projects, say experts He may not have said it out loud, but Kelvin Cantafio’s message was clear — good IT planning is the difference between life and death in his organization.
Monday, August 20, 2001
Accenture to cut 1,500 more jobs Consulting firm Accenture Ltd. said it is laying off 1,500 workers, or two per cent of its global workforce, and extending its voluntary sabbatical program to Europe and Asia.
Thursday, August 09, 2001
Organizing the task of consulting For the harried consultant running from meeting to meeting with an armful of papers and a leaking cup of coffee, keeping track of billable hours and kilometres logged can be a Herculean task.
Thursday, August 09, 2001
Surmounting the job market slowdown Call it what you will: a downturn, a recession, a slowdown, an economic slump. Whatever the term, we are smack dab in the middle of it and although there are many who will take comfort in the promised proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, we have yet to see it — especially in the IT parade.
Thursday, August 09, 2001
Surmounting The Job Market Slowdown With the virtual extinction of start-ups and dot-coms, the question that remains in the minds of newly unemployed IT professionals is: “Where do I go from here?”
Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Business intelligence no longer an oxymoron Business intelligence may seem to be an oxymoron to many organizations, but one vendor hopes its latest software will allow customers to make the kind of strategic business decisions they need to find from the masses of data they collect.
Thursday, May 31, 2001
Balancing IT with life "I work, and two weeks later, I get paid," he said. "Typically in consulting, clients often don't pay for months, if ever, but I don't have to worry about that."
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Consulting budgets squeezed during economic downturn Scaled-back IT plans in response to a slowing economy have led some firms to slash their IT consulting budgets in an effort to rein in spending.
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Scaling the ERP Mountain Implementing an enterprise resource planning system is the Everest of the IT profession. Too many firms go through hell scaling the ERP heights. If only they had the Sherpa-like benefits of hindsight.