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Do IT Managers Know How to Spot Talent?

The debates over IT job availability continues. So just how good are IT leaders at recognizing their best workers?
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The IT Employment Disconnect

KNOW IT ALL
By Ed Cone
SAP Shifts Gears

Customers should be asking what SAP's leadership change means for them.     
BIZTECH 3.0
By Brian P. Watson
Deciphering China

The Beijing Olympics are over, but China's influence is only growing. Here's why.     
PARALLAX VIEW
By Eric Chabrow
How IT Costs Businesses Millions

One company's multimillion-dollar loss highlights the misues of technology.    


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IT-business alignment retakes the top spot in the Society for Information Management's annual survey. But recruiting and retaining top talent remains a high concern.

News
The Beijing Olympics have set the stage for a Web software showdown between Microsoft, Adobe.
Feature
A solid security policy is the basis for a secure enterprise. Skimp there, and nothing else will matter.
Article
Legendary Harvard professor Warren McFarlan examines the conundrum of China’s business potential: will it be the world’s sweatshop or the next great global competitor?
Article
The Beijing Olympics—and the massive media coverage around it—helps China reintroduce itself to the world. Harvard Business School’s China guru, Warren McFarlan, explains the ramifications.
Analysis
Businesses have a lot to lose when they don’t practice succession management. Like management continuity and their best IT pros.
Slide Show
Trying to keep top talent on board? Here are 11 proven tactics.
Opinion
CIOs gripe they can’t find skilled workers; displaced IT pros complain they can’t find decent jobs. How can both be right?
Slide Show
Is your company looking to go green? Here's how 227 IT leaders told us they're doing it at their firms.
Feature
Half of the companies we surveyed are launching green initiatives, and most say they’re doing it out of environmental concerns—not just the bottom line. But that’s only half the story.
Slide Show
We asked IT executives about their company’s motivation for launching green initiatives. The results appear to mark a drastic change in the conscience of Corporate America.
Feature
Anything as a service (XaaS) is a potentially game-changing technology that could reshape IT.
Interview
The author of The End of Software and Seven says CIOs are in an ideal position to lead the next-generation businesses that can result from embracing new software service models.
Book Review
Opinion
Like the nexus of all things computer, the middle letter of CIO redefines the role of the IT leader.

 
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Retailers Embrace Social Networks
More and more retailers are building social networking sites and tools to help sell their wares.
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    NEWS
    Information is becoming increasingly important, and the role of the CIO is changing.
    Supply of talented IT staffers isn't keeping up with demand. And it won't change anytime soon.
    While overall unemployment creeps forward, joblessness among business-tech pros reaches a record low.
    IT execs showed interest in a wide range of topics: books, careers, leadership, management and people. See what they read over the past year.
    Corporate social media may seem like the next big thing, but new research finds that workers may not want to use them.

    OPINIONS
    More and more retailers are building social networking sites and tools to help sell their wares.
    High-tech employment increased slightly in 2005, boasting 61,000 new jobs, with Florida, Maryland and New Hampshire leading the way.
    Twenty percent of health care companies are unable or unwilling to implement federal privacy requirements, because the rules are vague and the technology is spotty. Meanwhile, another compliance deadline looms.
    The finalists in this year's eWEEK Excellence Awards program show that innovation is alive and very well.
    Feeble government actions not stemming piracy tide, business groups report. U.S. companies doing business in China face potential copyright infringement issues.
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