Deb Perelman

The health of the U.S. technology industry is at its highest level in five-and-a-half years, finds the latest quarterly index from Forrester Research and Information Technology Association of America, released March 21. The Q4 2006 Index suggested that there will be continued slow but steady gains for the tech sector in 2007. Based on 11 […]

What is the state of the enterprise IT workplace today? Employee rotation in and out of IT roles was the theme of the day at Forresters Teleconference on the Enterprise IT Career March 19, correlated with more successful recruitment and better worker retention. Yet only a minority of firms embraced these concepts. Recruitment While computer […]

The cost advantage of offshoring declined in 2006, found the Global Services Location Index released by A.T. Kearney, a Washington-based global consulting firm. The report found that although the wage advantage of offshoring locations for office services is set to last for another 20 years, it is on the decline as offshore wages for IT, […]

When it comes time to update your resume, ever find yourself decreasing margins, font size, line spacing and a dozen other cheats to keep it down to the vaunted size: a single page? Then this is good news for you! The “one page only” rule is quickly going the way of, well, printed-page resumes themselves, […]

Despite reports that the United States is facing a shortage of millions of workers within the coming decade as baby boomers retire, The National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development found that many U.S. business are unprepared for the changing demographics. More than one quarter of U.S. business have failed to plan for the […]

Talk to someone who has worked in IT for decades and more often than not, theyll regale you with stories of the “good old days,” when the workplace was lively and creative juices flowed. Nowadays its a different story, they usually say, and place their blame along any number of lines: outsourcing, offshoring, cost-cutting, IT […]

Citing falling student enrollments and improved technology, an academic at the British Computing Society asks whether computer science is dead, claiming that there is less need for high-level development schools, in an article published on the BCS Web site in February 2007. Neil McBride argues that computer studies are a dying discipline, evident in the […]

IT added $2 trillion to the U.S. economy in the past decade, according to a report released Mar. 13 by the Washington, D.C.-based Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a technology-promoting public policy think tank. The report, Digital Prosperity: Understanding the Economic Benefits of the Information Technology Revolution, found that the economic transformation resulting from IT […]

Do you have the IT skills managers covet? According to a study released March 8 by Forrester Research, recruiters are setting their sights on tech pros with project management, security and architecture skills in 2007, as the more routine aspects of network management and application maintenance continue to be outsourced. Forrester surveyed 186 IT decision […]

It is little news today that few students choose computer science and its related fields as college majors. Yet, more surprising piece information is the number of students who declare an interest in technology at the high school level but lose interest along the way, according to data released in 2006 by the HERI (Higher […]

Why do most IT projects fail? Poor communication, finds a Web survey released by CompTIA on March 6. Twenty-eight percent of the more than 1,000 respondents said that poor communications were the primary factor behind most project failures. “Clearly, technical skills alone are no longer enough,” said John Venator, president and CEO, CompTIA. “Technology workers […]

What clogs the phone lines and causes the most headaches for help desk professionals? Without a doubt, they already know: forgotten passwords. Confirmation came this week in the form of an IT Headache Index released March 5 by SupportSoft, a technology problem resolution company, which found that the cause of 75 percent of help desk […]