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Alcan Inc. needs to be able to trust that all of its 8,000 professional employees around the world are the right people for the positions they hold. The Montreal-based aluminum manufacturer fostered a trusting relationship with a technology vendor to achieve that end.

Doug Caldwell, chief technology officer for Indigo Books & Music Inc., worked with Avanade Canada behind the scenes to enhance the online shopping experience of the book retailer

At my office, a look at the employees

A patient is rushed to Trillium Health Care Centre apparently suffering from a heart attack. In a matter of minutes the emergency team at the Mississauga, Ont.-based hospital electronically searches and retrieves all of the person

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Working under the premise that there is strength in numbers, three Greater Toronto Area-based IT associations have announced a joint initiative to cooperate on...

Outsourcing. Layoffs. Budget cuts. Ho-hum projects. If that sounds like a description of your IT department, chances are you have a morale problem. And you're not alone. "CIOs have to recognize that IT worker morale is at its lowest in decades," says Paul Glen, author of Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology.

Robert D. Blackwell Sr. has seen a lot of progress by African-American IT professionals since he first joined the industry nearly 40 years ago. Computerworld spoke with Blackwell, 67, about the merger, the state of the IT consulting market and the challenges of being a black IT professional.