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Tapping the outsource

Outsourcing appears to be the topic of the day, and from what I can tell, that conversation will only grow more intense this year.

Career Watch – Jan. 1, 2004

Chris Formela has been appointed Vice President, Information Technology at Sandylion Sticker Designs. Mr. Formela has been in the IT industry in the Greater...

Collaboration improves with software

The transformation of ways in which people interact through and with computers may be as dramatic as the way the technology itself has developed.

Firms reclaim resources lost to spam

Let's say your employees make on average $20/hour and spend a minimum of six minutes each day dealing with the junk e-mail they receive. That works out to about $2 in lost revenue per worker each day. Multiply that by the number of your employees and the number of working days a year and that multi-billion dollar figure suddenly hits home.

How not to implement your enterprise portals

Enterprise portals have been credited with reducing IT infrastructure, substituting online less expensive self-service for call centre reps, and providing faster executive communication to staff, according to Forrester Research.

Video tools close in on that long distance feeling

Video instant messaging and videoconferencing are becoming harder to tell apart, both in quality and in price. New products shown at the Instant Messaging Planet Conference and Expo in San Jose this fall cover the spectrum from US$25 monthly for video IM to thousands of dollars a year for full-fledged groupware.

Why women lag men in high-tech

High-tech is a relatively young industry, one whose major growth spurts postdate the birth of the women's movement. So it might be reasonable to assume that the industry would escape some of the gender inequities that infect the management of industries that have been around for a century or two.

Career checklist: Bracing for outsourcing

Preparing yourself to deal with the impact of outsourcing on your job is not much different from what IT personnel should be doing in general to advance their careers and ensure they will continue to be valuable to their employers, according to one specialist.

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