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- Pay discrepancy between men and women in IT is a real kick in the skirt
- Does a woman still make $.70 to a man's $1.00?If you are an IT manager, how do you carefully balance salaries, promotions, pay increases, and bonuses between the men and women on your team in order to avoid gender bias?RE: Pay discrepancy between men and women in IT is a...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Sonja Thompson, women, IT IS, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Sanity check: The six consumer technologies that are destroying traditional IT
- Earlier this year, the researchers at the Gartner Group published a series of reports on the invasion of consumer technologies into the enterprise and the challenges that this phenomenon has created for IT departments. Gartner has wrapped all of that research into a special report called Consumerization: The IT...
- Tags: Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- IT is a great career for the bright, talented and willing.
- Nothing has changed in IT as is true in many fields. To be well compensated you must be good at what you do. The better you are, the better the pay you can expect. IT offers a lifelong challenge to those that are looking to be challenged....
- Tags: Strategy, career, MaranathaP, Nothing, information technology, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- One reason why it's so hard to get IT people to think about the business
- This is hardly unique to ITThe problem is the same in the medical community, or any of the engineering disciplines. The knowledge hierarchy is a very good explanation and trying to "blame" IT is not productive. Salaries are basically determined by the market place and skills that are hard...
- Tags: GL44, information technology, developer, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- Providing remote access to private healthcare data
- We have access to nearly everything on-line – news of any variety, email, blogs ahem, sports scores (congrats Colts!), music, family photos and our finances. But why is our healthcare data still largely missing in action? It’s not because IT is incapable of making it accessible....
- Tags: Compliance, Regulation, Hipaa, Enterprise, Data Management, Electronic Medical Records, Electronic Protected Health Information, health care, patient, remote access
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Responses to career advice requests
- If you’ve worked in IT for any length of time, say longer than a week, you’ve probably been quizzed by someone on what it takes to begin an IT career. I’ve been quizzed by lots of “someones” over the years, and while the faces have changed my...
- Tags: career, certification, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Wired or wireless: It's not an either/or
- Here is an interesting statistic— according to the Yankee Group, nearly 40 percent of todays workforce is mobile—and this number is growing. What does that mean to your organization? To some, it means staunchly refusing to face whats in front of you, and continuing to act as if wireless is...
- Tags: mobile, Thin Client, Wifi, Wired Inc., wireless, Wiring.
- Blog posts 2006-11-26
- Top 10 Most Stressful Professions
- http://www.wytv.com/news/health/2788381.htmlThis is an interesting article/report that indicated that IT is one of the most stressful professions. I was wondering how many agree?Only as stressful as you make itAs a general rule, commerical/industrial locations are the less stressful when compared to private residence/home environments. On check lanes, offices, or labratories...
- Tags: career, ericsaddress@..., information technology, IT IS, job, Post Edited, stress
- Discussion threads 2006-09-17
- Managing the stress of constant change
- This week was decidedly odd. I spentit driving around, getting lost in various places I used to know, andgetting lost. I spent one glorious afternoon completely out of mymind, effectively, lost in an area I once knew so well I could almostwalk down the streets blindfolded. Sixteen...
- Tags: information technology, IT IS, stress
- Blog posts 2006-09-02
- You know what you want to do - why isn't it happening?
- This is something that troubles me. I see examples all over - in my own company and many others - of IT managers not having the bottle to put into practice the policies they know to be best for the company.Plaintive excuses - "The uses won't like it", "We have...
- Tags: IT IS
- Discussion threads 2006-08-30
- What's up with the -abilities, anyway?
- I spent today trying to explain what Ido to people who really do want to get it. I spent hours discussingit, trying to make the esoteric world of design priorities, patternmatching, data mining, and envisioning seem not only interesting buteffective and practical as well. Interesting I can handle;...
- Tags: information technology, IT IS, manageability
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- The rise and fall of IT
- My work supports grocery sales, but almost all retail outlets have the same basic configuration. If the of point-of-sale system fails, the store is essentially dead in the water. If subsidiary systems such as inventory control systems or in grocery service scale networks fail, there is an adverse...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2006-08-24
- The 5 most dangerous IT management trends in 2006
- today's market...have a consultant's mindI am finding out that in today's market, you must have a consultant's mindset...even when you are a fulltime employee. You must see yourself as having to:> Find your next task that will add the most value to the company’s bottom line.> Never sit back on past...
- Tags: career, information technology, IT administration, IT IS, Item 1, JohnGPMP, TR Article
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
- HELP, I want a Mentor
- HELP, I want a MentorI am new to IT and the organization I work for is a great company with excellent benefits, however I have no guidance and no support. It seems as if everyman for themselves when in truth I thought we were supposed to be team players....
- Tags: mentor, Read
- Discussion threads 2006-08-02
- It's got it all, and yet no-one's heard of it...
- How many products are there like that languishing out on the web - Something gets picked up by a few infleuntial bloggers, and bam, everyone's heard about it and then Google buys it. But how to escape from feature rich, but obscure, hell, to international celebrity?I run a company,...
- Tags: Wiki, E-mail, Blogging
- Discussion threads 2006-07-31
- (Photos: A trip down HP's memory lane)
- So interesting, when you're my age!I'm 58, so I can relate to the times, office layouts and furniture, constant smoking and in many ways less pressure of working back in the late '60's and 70's, no mobile phones and e-mail so when you left the office to go home you...
- Tags: furniture, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT IS, it management, jtech@..., Office furniture, our computer past......, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-07-29
- Trying to come to a compromise about undocumented hacks
- Last week was a good week. We got a lot done. We stabilized a system that was causing major problems. We identified and addressed some key problems, which will in turn slowly ramp down the incidents we face on a daily basis. We also got our...
- Tags: hack, IT IS, team
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- High-tech jobs recovery? Don't believe the hype
- I agree totallyI started in IT in 1996 and since then I have had 3 different jobs in the last 4 years, 2 of them unplanned job changes with short periods of unemployment. Although I would say, at least here the job outlook is better than it was in 2002.It...
- Tags: job, H1B, IT IS, tech sector, jobs, employment, news, Sonja Thompson, career
- Discussion threads 2006-07-21
- Microsoft enters robotics race
- Help me, God!Microsoft in Robotics! I hope they build the three keys CTRL+ALT+DEL right on the forehead of the robot. One never knows!It's begun......This is an exciting time in our history,mark this era. This period in our time is what Apple,the 8088, 286 was when large scale computing began. It's...
- Tags: IT IS, robotics, This IS, microsoft, Microsoft Corp., shubh_80@..., networking
- Discussion threads 2006-06-22
- Best Internet Research Sites
- I'm looking for the best Internet research websites -- I want the site name, the site URL, and a short description of what's good about the site if possible. Here's an example, showing some of the best resources I've found over the years, in alphabetical order:Answers.comhttp://www.answers.comThis one is great...
- Tags: INTERNET, IT IS, Jargon File
- Discussion threads 2006-06-08
