Project Management

The focus of one of our main news stories this week is something that has made its unwelcome presence felt quite strongly on corporate networks in the last half year or so: spyware.

Did you ever attempt to measure the ROI of your new oven?

When employees from around the globe access Open Text Corp.

Microsoft Corp. recently said it will sacrifice some key advances it had planned for Longhorn so it can deliver the successor to Windows XP in 2006.

Tales from the depths of IT departments.

Not surprisingly, Miami-Dade County's IT managers have had to come up with innovative ways to balance the its IT requirements with the needs of the centre's workers -- especially when natural disasters such as hurricanes occur.

Public sector managers need a sound understanding of what information technology can actually deliver, says Peter Barnes. Barnes, a former Secretary to Cabinet in Ontario who is now a Toronto-based management consultant, told this year

Sometimes the things you don't know can hurt you. "If you'd asked me a few years ago, I probably would have said we're doing all right," says John Smith, IT director for the southern region of Entergy Nuclear, a subsidiary of Entergy Corp. He discovered instead that some of his fellow senior executives did not agree. "The COO and I had some tense discussions about this," he says.