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Archive: 06-2012

• What to do when you can't find qualified staff

  How might you be able to go about meeting critical organizational needs when you’re having trouble finding well-qualified staff? Here are five actions you might take, although there are...

  Posted by Scott Lowe | June 29, 2012, 12:32 PM PDT

• Infographic: How to develop a social recruiting strategy

  Here are the benefits of, and strategies for, using social recruiting to engage the most qualified job candidates.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | June 27, 2012, 5:40 AM PDT

• Network neutrality: Revisiting the arguments

  A “neutral” network cannot coexist with high-speed, unlimited usage broadband connections, nor can consumers expect carriers to foot the bill for increasingly bandwidth-hungry...

  Posted by Patrick Gray | June 26, 2012, 1:37 PM PDT

• More CIO distractions and how to deal with them

  The best technologies enable and accelerate good processes and organizational dynamics rather than replace them. Cultivating this view will move you from distracted technologist to rational and...

  Posted by Patrick Gray | June 25, 2012, 5:06 AM PDT

• Good governance means reconsidering personal agendas

  Governance is not a process by which IT becomes a team of order takers, but is a process intended to make sure that scarce IT resources are targeted at projects to which they will do the most good.

  Posted by Scott Lowe | June 22, 2012, 5:15 AM PDT

• Five ways to spot an application failure before it happens

  Discover the warning signs of enterprise application failure so you can spot these issues before they add up to a nightmare situation for your company.

  Posted by Guest Contributor | June 20, 2012, 10:54 AM PDT

• One view of today's IT job market

  Scott Lowe shares some information he received from speaking with Russ Hearl, Director of Ecosystems and Partners for eLance.

  Posted by Scott Lowe | June 18, 2012, 5:29 AM PDT

• Top CIO distractions (and how to avoid them)

  The average CIO is expected to understand diverse topics ranging from networking to the latest malicious software that might come knocking. Here are some of the top distractions facing...

  Posted by Patrick Gray | June 13, 2012, 3:59 AM PDT

• Six Windows 8 enhancements that will benefit the business

  Although he remains skeptical that Windows 8 will be an immediate hit with the enterprise, Scott Lowe outlines eight features that he thinks will be good for business.

  Posted by Scott Lowe | June 7, 2012, 5:25 AM PDT

• An open enterprise may not be such a good idea

  Most recent technological and management innovations focus on “openness.” Patrick Gray talks about why this is not always such a good idea.

  Posted by Patrick Gray | June 6, 2012, 7:54 AM PDT