Shane Schick

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Reflexivity can humble even the most experienced IT manager

Now that the world has gotten past the shock of the economic collapse and the bewilderment over why no one saw it coming, the...

YouTube Fridays: Become a 70s-era IT manager!

This was only posted a month ago, but something about the B-roll takes me back to my pre-teen days. Even the fonts for the...

Survive the recession through some stealth BPM

Today I hosted a ComputerWorld Canada Technology Insights event called “Building value through business process management in a downturn economy.” If we had schedule...

Gartner: Last resort IT cost-cutting strategies

The research firm offers advice for desperate enterprises who have already chopped budgets but need to reduce their expenses even further. Exercise caution before taking these measures, an analyst warns

Economics and IT department ethics

It’s not what you know. It’s not even just who you know. It’s who you know who knows how to monitor e-mail, and has...

This time, you pick the best technology bloggers in Canada

I took the easy way out last year. As we were beginning to launch our first-ever Blogging Idol contest – where we give away...

YouTube Fridays: An IT manager’s pre-job interview

Who said IT managers can't present themselves well? It doesn't get much better than this woman, who manages to come across as highly experienced,...

The slumdog millionaires in enterprise IT

We haven’t gotten out to see a lot of movies in the theatre since our son was born last summer, but my wife and...

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