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More than ever before, IT executives are occupying a seat in the C-suite. Find out what you can do to bolster your career and the perception of IT in the enterprise.
It’s an unfortunate fact of life in today’s world that both natural and manmade disasters can place businesses at risks both moderate and severe. Whether caused by earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards, terrorist attacks, sabotage or some other element, business can be impeded from normal operations or shut down entirely if catastrophic events are powerful enough. Having ...
See the outlook for business leaders in 2020 and where they are spending their dollars. We’ve also got valuable advice for how to best optimize your budget plans. This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet/TechRepublic special feature, offers a detailed look at how companies plan their IT budgets. From the ebook IT budgeting is challenging ...
In today’s era many businesses rely on outside companies, known as third party organizations, to handle their data or services. Some examples might include vendors, marketing firms, recruiting organizations and other external entities. In these instances, it’s likely that third party vendors might collect, store or refer to confidential or sensitive information regarding the business ...
Companies increasingly respond to new business conditions with their technology spends, and nowhere is this more apparent than in their IT budgets. Where exactly businesses plan to spend their tech dollars was the topic of a recent TechRepublic Premium survey. The survey asked the following questions: How much do you anticipate your organization’s fiscal or ...
Appropriate asset controls are important in order to safeguard the business while providing employees the use of assets needed to do their jobs. These controls ensure assets are managed and tracked in a routine fashion to reduce risk and unnecessary cost to the business. The purpose of this policy is to provide procedures and protocols ...
The term “digital transformation” has evolved from a trendy phrase to a business strategy must-have and shows no signs of slowing down. Does your company need to save money or enhance customer service? Maybe it needs to innovate? A digital transformation strategy can provide solutions and has become a necessity in order for companies to ...
Microsoft Teams is Microsoft’s take on chat-based communication for business, its answer to competing platforms such as Slack and Atlassian’s HipChat. In its simplest form the service allows users to set up Teams, each of which is essentially a hub for group chatrooms, which are called channels. However, Microsoft is pushing the platform as being ...
A cryptographer uses their expertise in mathematics and computer science to develop algorithms, ciphers, and other encryption systems to protect sensitive data. It can be a difficult position to fill. Using this hiring kit as a template you can find, recruit, and hire the best cryptographer candidate for your business. Depending on the open position, ...
Recruiting candidates with advanced software engineering experience and a least some familiarity with applied blockchain technology will take time and effort. This hiring kit provides a workable framework you can use to find, recruit, and ultimately hire the best candidate for Blockchain Engineer in your organization. From the Hiring kit INTRODUCTION Moving well-beyond its cryptocurrency ...
Moonlighting, the practice of working for another organization in a separate job in addition to one’s current employment, is a fairly common practice these days. It’s especially frequent in technology where people with varying skills and backgrounds may find their abilities in demand by multiple companies and in need of multiple streams of income to ...