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Hong Kong residents as well as mainland Chinese tourists anticipate the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland three months hence. As Disney's "cast members" work to create the Disney brand's classic "magical experience," Noble Coker-Hong Kong Disneyland's director of IT-shares with CWHK's Sheila Lam the challenges of building an IT operation from scratch.

As a consultant, one of the things I am often asked to do are project reviews: when things have not gone well, the stakeholders are looking for recommendations to get their project back on track. When projects get into trouble it is often for one (or more) of the following reasons...

Siebel Systems Inc. has adopted a set of employee benefits plans guaranteeing its workers severance payments and continued health-care coverage if the company is acquired, a move Siebel said is necessary to retain employees amid widespread speculation about the company's future.

What does the job market look like from the perspective of a recruiter who is trying to fill positions for companies looking for help with IT projects? ComputerWorld Canada department editor Patricia Pickett discussed this and more with Sathish Bala, president and CEO of Toronto-based New Age Consulting.

A worldwide day of action by IBM Corp. workers and unions in protest over the company's planned job cuts got off to a slow start with no reported action at company facilities in Asia-Pacific as of late morning.

Even though IT jobs are stressful, IT workers are happier now than they were a year ago. According to the March 2005 Hudson Employment Index, compiled by independent research firm Rasmussen Reports, 77 per cent of IT workers say they are happy with their jobs. In May 2004, only 66 per cent of IT workers said they were happy at work.

Want to encourage new ideas at your company? Let the engineers run wild. That was the advice Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt had for attendees of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco last week.