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IBM's Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) on Wednesday honoured longstanding members of Canada

Over the next 10 years information technology will be as commoditized as the kitchen toaster is now, according to a Gartner paper entitled Future Worker 2015. The researcher says the killer app of 2015 will be . . . a human, and more specifically, the way workers use technology.

Technology job cuts for the first three quarters of the year were up 18.8 percent over the same period in 2004, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a global outplacement company.

Jim Burke knows from experience that multi-vendor collaboration

Tasked with processing more than 32 million payments and 20 million transactions annually, Vancouver-based business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Accenture Business Services for Utilities recently developed a management software application to help in streamlining workflow.

I received the call: I was needed on a project, but was I available? I was. My contact, however, was not. He

It makes perfect sense. If you have already adopted outsourcing as part of your IT strategy, why not use outside expertise to manage the outsourced elements?

Work longer hours to save jobs: that's the deal Patrick Starck, the chief executive officer of the French subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co. is offering workers there. He's surfing a wave of criticism of the country's 35-hour working week rule, which stands accused of imposing a "competitive disadvantage" on French industry. By linking working hours to the job cuts threatened by the company's restructuring plan, Starck is hinting at a way of implementing the plan that is better for the workers.