Tuesday, December 21, 2010
How to foster teamwork among techies As IT departments are downsized, with low-level tech jobs outsourced or replaced by managed services, the remaining staffers must not only work more closely with business units, but also share knowledge
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Collaboration, IT-style: How to do it right What's the best way to nurture that desire for collaboration and creativity in your IT employees? We checked in with several companies that have had success in tapping the power of IT collaboration. Here are their stories
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Is there a best certification? There is no best tool for an undefined job. Nobody can rationally decide whether a hammer or a power drill is the "best tool" without specifying what job the tool is supposed to do. So it is with certifications
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Open Text's Eugene Roman opens up He’s not an urban sophisticate gunning for the CEO’s job. Instead, the newly-promoted CTO embraces his farm-boy roots and admits to loving technology as much as he loves managing people. WITH VIDEO
Monday, February 08, 2010
What A CIO Should Know: All CIO blogs at AllTop Our monthly roundup of must-attend industry events, links, educational videos and other resources to help Canadian CIOs succeed. In this edition: A new online service that's aggregating senior IT executive opinions
Thursday, August 23, 2007
New certification seeks governance excellence An international association will begin offering certification that recognizes the ability to bring governance principles to the way information and information technology are managed. The certification aims for deep knowledge in strategic alignment, performance measurement, value delivery, and risk and resource management.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Stephen Harper welcomes MISA to fed fold OTTAWA - Municipal governments are working together for the first time in a formally constituted organization aimed at enabling municipalities from all regions of Canada to improve service delivery to citizens.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
More hard time for Brit cybercriminals The British government has proposed sharply increasing penalties for computer crimes that are taking a financial toll on U.K. businesses. 
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Tomorrow could be ugly So maybe you're not all that worried about the gloomsters and doomsters who fret that hackers and malware and spyware and the whole shebang threaten the very foundations of e-government and e-commerce. That's fine. But you may wish to note in passing that the folks at Microsoft are taking it seriously.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
UK bill raises penalties for cybercriminals The British government has proposed sharply increasing penalties for computer crimes that are taking a financial toll on U.K. businesses. The Police and Justice Bill would amend the Computer Misuse Act of 1990, a Home Office spokeswoman said Friday. It would increase the maximum penalty for unauthorized modification of a computer from five years to 10 years, a provision that would cover all forms of DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks, she said. 
Sunday, September 04, 2005
CRM and complaince - making the connection Rui Mendes, president and CEO of NOVAData Information Systems Inc. talks to IT World Canada's online editor Joaquim P. Menezes about Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and compliance.
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Some certifications are hot, some not Network administrators are finding that investing in learning specialized job skills — and validating those skills by passing certification tests — can lead to career advancement even when the economic outlook for hiring is bleak. 
Sunday, January 11, 2004
University serves up in-house software Students studying enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems at Nova Scotia's St. Francis Xavier University will get more "hands-on" training under a new initiative. 
Friday, November 07, 2003
Feds to push new set of security controls To bolster information systems security, the federal government is pushing to have civilian agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, follow new regulations based on practices at the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency.
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Hummingbird buys Valid Information Systems Hummingbird Ltd., a Toronto-based enterprise software company, has acquired U.K.-based Valid Information Systems Ltd. for US$16.5 million.
Thursday, March 27, 2003
Working hard: Making the same mistakes I believe that IT is not yet a profession because we do not learn from our mistakes. We do not change our behavior. We have not codified the body of knowledge gained from the past 40 years of experience, and we do not teach this knowledge in any coherent manner to those entering or already working in the field. Massive, multimillion-dollar debacles are not just isolated occurrences in IT. They are the norm.
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Thinking it through: Reflections on high tech public purchasing Because the procurement process is one of the most visible points of intersection between the public and private sectors, it will always be bedeviled by a host of issues.
Sunday, March 31, 2002
Certification more political than practical Computerworld (US) columnist Vince Tuesday was impressed by the technical depth of a network intrusion detection course he enrolled in recently, but he wonders if the newly learned knowledge will ever need to be applied in a commercial environment.
Thursday, January 24, 2002
Web services next big thing: Borland The most exciting thing about technology today isn’t its ability to allow people to talk to people, or even for people to talk to computers.
Thursday, November 22, 2001
Survey finds corporate IT still vulnerable Corporate information systems remain porous against cyberattacks, and many IS managers do not consider security practices and policies to be a top priority in their organization, according to a survey by Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) this week.
Monday, November 05, 2001
How to take over the classroom It seems to be a stand-off. Corporations want graduates to be conversant with everything from the newest programming language to the creakiest minicomputer. Schools continue to focus on balanced curricula. Yet schools and CIOs can get along.
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Akamai, MRV execs killed in attack At least two top executives of U.S. technology companies were among those killed Tuesday in New York when the aircraft they were traveling on was hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center.
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Turning Data into Knowledge When you think about it, many concepts in our world are misnamed. Chief Information Officers are really Chief Technology Officers; business analysts are usually just systems analysts. Our entire field is a misnomer. It's called information systems or management information systems, but I would argue that the old term `data processing' is still a better fit for how we work most of the time. And the Information Age has really been the Data Age.
Tuesday, October 24, 2000
Implementing HR Systems At international resource firm Falconbridge Ltd., the success of the company’s new human resource systems may be determined several hundred feet underground at its mining operation in Sudbury, Ontario. There, as the shift supervisor waits for the cage that will take him and his crew back to the surface, he may take the time to electronically enter details of the work just completed: information such as the location worked, the amount of ore removed, the equipment and materials utilized, and data on the individuals who worked the shift.