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Kevin Bernstein, chief technology officer at direct mortgage lender Platinum Capital Group in Irvine, Calif., puts prospective security consultants under close scrutiny.

Business applications company Siebel Systems Inc. has appointed George Shaheen as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately, the company announced Wednesday. Shaheen is replacing Michael Lawrie, who became CEO just last May.

Innovation is increasingly becoming the differentiator of successful businesses

Niccolo Machiavelli would have considered occasional, small-scale cruelty justifiable and wise when it inspired fear and enabled a prince "to keep his subjects united and obedient." Ethical issues aside, this seems to work reasonably well, at least for a while, if your goal is to control the behaviour of a population, quell social unrest or suppress dissent. But if your goal is to lead a group of knowledge workers to peak productivity, this may not be a recipe for success.

“I am not 45. I am a 20-year-old with twenty-five years of experience,” proclaimed a t-shirt I once spotted in a crowd. Now, if...

Roberta Fox has followed an unusual path to a career in IT. As a telecommunications and technology industry analyst and senior partner at Fox Group Consulting in Markham, Ont., Fox

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More women are graduating from computer science programs at Canadian universities, but only a small percentage of women who enroll actually complete the programs, and women make up only 25 per cent of the IT workforce, according to a survey of 10 universi