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- Are you a consultant or a contractor?
- You've hung your consultant shingle, but are you truly fulfilling the role? Learn the differences between consultants and contractors, and find out about two dangerous career traps. by Comprehensive Solutions
- Tags: Consultant, Contractor, Role, Consulting, Outsourcing, Professional Development, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Career, Comprehensive Solutions
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Write information owner responsibility into policy
- The information owner is a key player in protecting sensitive data and systems. His or her role must be clearly defined in policies. However, security personnel should review information owner decisions to ensure regulatory and policy compliance. by Tom Olzak
- Tags: Policy, Information Owner, Cresson Wood, Outsourcing, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Tom Olzak
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- IT consultant strategies for weathering economic downturns
- Check out these tips for keeping your consulting business afloat when the economy is tanking. Chip Camden discusses five marketing tips from Steve McKee and provides six do's and don'ts of his own. by Chip Camden
- Tags: Information Technology, Business, Client, Consulting, Chip Camden, Outsourcing, Strategy, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Finance, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Reports indicate IT staff jobs will drop in 2009
- For the last few months, reports have indicated that IT seems to be exempt from the dismal budget. But new reports are painting a different picture. by Toni Bowers
- Tags: Job, Report, Information Technology, Survey, Outsourcing, Help Desk, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Harassed for attempting to transition from employee to consultant
- When a TechRepublic member told his employer that he planned to resign and work for a small consulting firm which had been a vendor, his boss threatened to sue the new firm. Find out what lessons you can learn from this sweet consulting opportunity that turned sour. by Chip Camden
- Tags: Consulting Company, Consultant, Employer, Consulting, Mac_IT_Guy, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Top 10 IT headlines for July 8: Offshoring hurts customer satisfaction, Juniper sees enterprise biz as healthy
- Top 10 IT headlines for Tuesday, July 8, 2008: Offshore outsourcing hurts customer satisfaction, Juniper CEO sees healthy enterprise business, alternatives to iPhone 3G, Richard Stallman blasts retiring Bill Gates, and more. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Information Technology, Juniper Networks Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Techweb, Offshoring, 3G, Strategy, Product Marketing, Outsourcing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Marketing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Do we combat soaring energy prices with a four-day workweek?
- In an effort to combat soaring fuel prices, the state of Utah has implemented a four-day workweek for its government offices. by Toni Bowers
- Tags: Telecommuting, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Six questions to ask yourself before expanding your IT consultancy
- Don't expand your IT consultancy without asking yourself these six important questions. If you still decide to take the plunge, find out what Chip Camden advises to ease into the transition. by Chip Camden
- Tags: Hiring, Information Technology, Consulting, Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
- Good consultants know when to be "invisible"
- Sometimes you need to take a backseat to the client team so that they can fully develop the skills they'll need after you're gone. Shannon Kalvar describes becoming an "invisible consultant" in order to allow a client to become the star of the project. by Shannon Kalvar
- Tags: Project, Team, Consultant, Consulting, Shannon Kalvar, Larry, Team Management, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- IT consulting: The customer isn't always right
- When a customer is wrong, it can be difficult to get them to come around to your way of thinking. Robert L. Bogue explains why listening, teaching, and giving them time to process information can go a long way. by Robert Bogue
- Tags: Information Technology, Customer, Consulting, Person, Robert Bogue, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- 10 personality traits of a highly effective independent consultant
- Many IT consultants daydream about branching out on their own without giving much thought to what skills are necessary to succeed as a freelancer. Before you commit to being an independent consultant, read Chip Camden's list of 10 personality traits that he says you should possess in order to be...
- Tags: Consultant, Problem, Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- How to respond if a client asks you to lie
- If an IT consulting client asked you lie for them, would you? Chip Camden provides tips on what to say if your client puts you on the spot. by Chip Camden
- Tags: Client, Taxes, Free Trade, Outsourcing, Financial Planning, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- New study says more IT jobs at risk
- At the end of April, The Wharton School and CareerBuilder.com released new research on offshoring based on data from 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals. If you're in any of the sectors audited, you should be aware of some of the findings. With abounding uncertainty regarding the...
- Tags: Job, Information Technology, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John McKee
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Big trouble for little white IT consulting lies
- A prospective client describes the problem domain. It seems easy enough for your abilities, and your consulting fees aren't an obstacle. You're already counting the money you're going to make from this IT consulting project, when the client says: "Oh, and we use <technology X>. How well do you know...
- Tags: Consultant, Information Technology, Consulting, Technology, X, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-05-03
- Billing IT consulting clients for travel time
- Since I perform most of my IT consulting work from home, I don't have to travel much for business anymore -- twice a year is a lot for me. My clients can connect to my brain over the wonderful World Wide Web and suck everything they need out of it...
- Tags: Billing, Client, Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Do IT consultants have a right to reuse code?
- Do you have the right to reuse code that you create for one IT consulting client in an engagement for another client? Naturally, you learn new techniques as you work on a problem that you can't help but apply to similar projects in the future. But how different does the...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Client, Consulting, Outsourcing, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Why long-term IT consulting engagements may be preferable
- One week from today will be the 17 year anniversary of when I became an independent IT consultant. During that time, I've had 50 clients, seven of whom are still active (I'm arbitrarily defining active clients as ones I billed in the last six months). Including the...
- Tags: Information Technology, Client, Consulting, Chances, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Chip Camden
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Outsourcing, good and bad.
- In all walks of life, services are being sold out to private contractors, IT support is outsourced, and customer service is taken out of the country on a regular basis and taken on by call centres in parts of the world where they have probably never seen the products they...
- Tags: Network, Outsource, Help Desk, Call Centers, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Jeff Dray
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Ten IT challenges for the 21st century
- I recently attended a meeting of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the AITP Association of Information Technology Professionals, and the speaker for the evening was Mr. Thomas C. Staab, President of Wind Ridge International LLC, a resource management firm in the Information Technology arena. He outlined what he saw...
- Tags: Information Technology, Quality, Challenge, Business Structures, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Strategy, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Management, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- More companies realizing the downside of outsourcing
- The latest survey from Robert Half Technology says that most CIOs do not outsource technology jobs outside the U.S. Ninety-four percent of the CIOs surveyed said their firms don't outsource. Nearly six in 10 CIOs whose companies do outsource said they are discontinuing the practice mostly because of the management...
- Tags: CIO, Outsource, Article, Worker, Workforce, Workforce Article, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
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