Human Resources

IT workers who don't feel they're getting the training from their employers needed to do their jobs are more likely to be looking for new jobs, according to a recent survey by The Computing Technology Industry Association, which was undertaken to better identify how IT professionals are being trained.

CIOs have asked and IT World Canada shall answer. A survey of Canadian IT professionals is underway to provide insights into skills, salaries, hiring, retention and other issues facing the IT profession. Dubbed Salary Survey

Work-life balance should mean more than just making time to do your duty to your family. Somehow, the notion that people also need time to recharge, rejuvenate and recreate themselves in activities that are neither work nor family has gotten lost in all the noise about flex-time, telecommuting and employee assistance programs.

In preparation for a redesign of Network World Canada (still a couple of months off, but beginning to take shape) and as part of that process we

Hiring was hot in the late 1990s, as CIOs threw money around trying to find and retain top technical talent. But early in the new millennium hiring fizzled, and CIOs, pressured to cut costs and do more with less, outsourced much IT work and even fired employees.

Delivering a complex project with many stakeholders is a delicate task requiring plenty of technical expertise and the tact of a diplomat. At fidelity investments Canada, building a cohesive team with a single focus was critical to the launch of an important new product. It exec Cam Murray takes you on a guided tour of the project.

Raj Setty, the man who wrote the book

CIOs like NPR's Bob Holstein say that managing the application blacklog is the number-one barrier to their job effectiveness. Here's how to set priorities.