With shrinking budgets and head counts, many firms look to solve their budget woes by outsourcing some IT operations to third parties. But outsourcing can be a disaster when not managed properly.
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Tags: background checks, budgerts, disaster, IT, outsourcing, support
First the General Accountability Office sounded the alarm about a flu pandemic and its potential to cripple the Internet, and now one of the IT industry’s preeminent analyst groups is adding its voice to the alarm.
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Tags: flu, Gartner, General Accountability Office, Pandemic, swine flu, telecommuting, work at home
The 40-hour work week in IT may be going the way of the 56K modem and back up tapes, according to a recent survey.
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Tags: IT job board, morale, overworked, stressed, survey, vacation. telecommuting, work week
Sure, there are plenty of government programs that are inefficient, tangled in red-tape and just plain lousy. So when one actually works, we should all take notice. One program that seems to be doing its job:
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If your IT department is nursing along old equipment because budgets have been frozen, there’s some tax news that may help you justify new purchases.
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Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, spending, tax break, taxes
The economic downturn’s claimed a number of victims in the past couple of years, but the latest might be your IT projects.
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Tags: failure, projects, report, Standish Group, success, survey
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