IT Careers


Building Your Knowledge Workshop

Knowledge workers perform craft work, and like any good craftsperson, you need a well-equipped workshop designed to meet the demands of your knowledge work.

Integrating Outsourced Projects

Integrating teams is the key to outsourcing success

Outsourcing: IBM May be Planning Large Expansion in India

Big Blue might have plans to hire at least 14,000 additional workers this year—in India

Design as a Signature Skill for the Knowledge Economy

The knowledge economy makes all of us designers every day. We need to become more adept at inventing and crafting new solutions to new problems.

Careers: IT Staff in "Legacy" Environments Sitting Pretty

Organizations are having second thoughts about the offshore outsourcing craze

Five Tips for Transferring IT Staff to Service Providers

IT staff transferred to your service provider don't face a bright future

Solid Infrastructure Paramount to Successful Outsourcing

Implementing a preventive methodology helps establish a solid infrastructure, raising the outsourcing organization's accountability, forcing them to write better code



Careers: Hiring Is Up But Salaries Are Flat

IT hiring activity looks to be on the rise, but IT compensation levels are stagnating.

Who Benefits from Outsourcing? Not the Line of Business

Some business customers are organizing “shadow” IT groups to replace IT resources that have been outsourced

Careers: Job Recovery Reverses Course

Analysts suggest that an IT spending slowdown is in the offing

Offshore Outsourcing: Success and Savings Still Elusive

Despite unimpressive results, offshore outsourcing market is growing rapidly. Even so, plenty of offshore adopters could bring it all back home again

Careers: Business Growth Fueling Stronger IT Job Market

With hiring is on the upswing, IT professionals once again have clout with potential employers

Careers: How "Inevitable Misappropriation" May Limit Job Mobility

Can your employer prevent you from taking a job with another company—even if it isn’t a direct competitor?

Careers: Are You a Security Conservative, Gloryhound, or Gambler?

The security solution you choose has important implications for your company and your career.

Careers: Combating Business-Process Change Overload

Compromise may be possible—even within the most control-oriented of corporate cultures

Careers: Job Openings Grow, Worker Satisfaction Highest Ever

Workers are increasingly optimistic about their job security—and job satisfaction has increased to unprecedented levels

Bridging the IT Cultural Divide, Part 2

How the thinking of a Jesuit priest can make a difference in IT/management communication.

Bridging the IT Cultural Divide, Part 1

How the thinking of a Jesuit priest can make a difference in IT/management communication.

Careers: IT Salaries Fell, IT Budgets Rebounded in 2004

The mean of IT compensation declined by almost 1 percent in 2004 while inflation grew by more than 3 percent

Readers Sound Off: The Value of IT Education

Readers respond to our observations about degree programs in information technology.