
The Skills Gap; Building a Social Business
In the recent IDC annual social business survey (June, 2012, N=700) we found that 67% of North American companies were using / implementing social solutions. That’s a huge number and up 25% in only a year. With this rapid increase…

Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills
As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. That is- if its in production, its “dead”. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web […]

Friday Rant: Procurement Salary Negotiation, Free Agency, and Old-Fashioned Chutzpah
I heard a story the other day of someone in a large organization — one
that had gone through numerous workforce reduction waves in the past
twelve months as well as salary and hiring freezes — who had the guts
to approach his boss about as…