Deborah Rothberg

IBM Hosts IT Workshop for Local Higher Ed As part of a larger effort to combat the shortage of skills in the IT marketplace, IBM is bringing its application development technologies right through the front doors of academia. The company hosted its first statewide university workshop to boost student application development skills Aug. 1-3 at […]

Few U.S. workers report to either women or minorities, according to a survey released Jan. 17 by Hudson, a New York provider of recruitment services. More than three-quarters (76 percent) of U.S. workers report to a Caucasian boss, according to the result of the national poll of nearly 5,000 workers. Just one-third (34 percent) reported […]

Within its first year of shipment, Windows Vista is expected to make 4.7 million computers its home, drive 21,000 new IT jobs and generate $9.5 billion in New York and New Jersey, according to an IDC report commissioned by Microsoft, released Jan. 16. Vistas impact on the market will reach far beyond Microsoft, the study […]

With an estimate of more than half a trillion dollars in total contract value, multiyear IT outsourcing deals have become so common that IT executives are turning to outsourcing intermediaries to build successful deals, according to a market report released by Forrester Research on Jan. 12. In a worldwide IT and applications outsourcing market now […]

Contrary to numerous reports implying that women are increasingly “opting out” of the workforce to attend to families, a study of professional women released Jan. 16 by the Boston-based Simmons School of Management finds that a great majority are instead negotiating more flexible work arrangements. Introducing a career model that seeks to benefit both genders, […]

Up dramatically from prior quarters, 72 percent of CIOs reported that they intended to increase their spending with external service providers in 2007, according to the quarterly CIO User Survey released by Merrill Lynch on Jan. 9. Up from 46 percent in the third quarter of 2006 and 58 percent 12 months earlier, as spending […]

Just how diverse is IT in the United States today? It depends on who you ask. Some will say, “More than ever,” and tell you about companies that are itching for a mixed breed of recruits, that will brag about their minority representation and that consider it a great bonus to have dozens of cultures […]

It might be the most publicized and monitored technology release this year, but it will be awhile before Microsofts Windows Vista makes an enterprise mark, according to a monthly report on the state of the tech job market published Jan. 10 by New York-based Dice, an IT careers site. When asked how quickly they expected […]

In an effort to combat attention fatigue and information overload, the Burton Group, a Salt Lake City-based IT research firm, released a research report Jan. 8 introducing the concept of an Enterprise Attention Management system. According to the report, in the current information economy, knowledge is everything but can be also stress-inducing, from e-mail overload, […]

Middle managers around the world are malcontent, and feel stagnant in their positions, according to the results of an annual survey released Jan. 9 by Accenture, the New York-based global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. In surveying more than 1,400 middle managers in nine countries spanning North America, Europe and Asia, the study […]