Management and Careers

Management and Careers Topic Center

Tips and techniques to help manage your most important asset -- your people -- and to help you learn how to get ahead on the IT career ladder

Engineer's wife 'ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs

The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas.
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Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in plane crash

Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday.

H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds

H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group.

Facebook IPO filing reveals some eye-poppers

When Facebook filed its IPO papers with the SEC on Wednesday, some interesting facts about the company came to light.

Dell forms software group, names former CA CEO as head

Dell on Thursday said it is forming a Software Group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings.

U.S. firms should disclose offshore hiring, says lawmaker

A newly filed U.S. House bill would require U.S. public companies to disclose how many employees they have in the U.S. and overseas.

Sony's Hirai, exec who led PlayStation turnaround, promoted to CEO

Sony said executive Kazuo Hirai, who runs the company's core consumer products division, will be promoted to CEO and president.

Kernel guru Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation

One of the principle maintainers of the Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has joined the Linux Foundation as a fellow, the same position held by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the foundation announced.

For Sony's new CEO, a big challenge is in your living room

Sony's new CEO faces a myriad of problems -- stemming massive losses, snatching the momentum back from deep-pocketed rivals, unifying his firm's diffuse businesses across the globe -- but one of his main priorities is your living room.

Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing

Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer relationship management) software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately.

When ERP is botched, CFOs must act

While ERP projects go awry for many reasons, each incident reveals its own set of troublesome repercussions, financial and otherwise.

Measure the success of your IT-business partnerships

How CIOs are determining if new attempts to partner with the business are making a difference.

How IT helped shape UL's new business strategy

Underwriters Laboratories' CIO Christian Anschuetz discusses UL's recent transformation from a non-profit to a for-profit organization and how IT shaped and supported that change. He weighs in on the consumerization of IT, offers advice for CIOs, explains why 'big data' without 'big discretion' will lead to 'big failure,' and more.

No more historic SLA reports: Get it (and fix it) in real time

Businesses of almost all types are increasingly dependent on service providers for network connectivity that consistently delivers certain performance characteristics. In addition to basic service availability, these characteristics increasingly include peak, average and minimum bandwidth utilization, latency (delay) and latency variation (jitter), and packet loss -- all of which can affect operational efficiency and end user satisfaction. This is especially the case with Ethernet-based service offerings employing packet transport to deliver E-LINE services operating at speeds up to tens of gigabits per second.

Building Your Cloud? Remember Your Workers

My post last week discussed the importance of long-term benefits related to productivity and cost when implementing cloud computing technologies. CFOs and their IT directors must understand the importance of hard costs, but they should not forget their employees who will ultimately be impacted by these changes.

Stupid user tricks 6: IT idiocy loves company

IT fight club, dirty dev data, meatball sandwiches -- nine more tales of brain fail beyond belief

Hire a vet? IT Says Yes

Microsoft, Siemens and AT&T are just a few of the corporations discovering the value of veterans' tech training, global perspective and surprising arsenal of soft skills.

Career Watch: In job interviews, be aware of what your body is saying

Body language is too important to ignore when it comes to public speaking and job interviews, says author Christine Jahnke.

The Grill: John A. Benanti and Donald Stanton

Deputy Commissioner of Technology and Support Services John A. Benanti and Assistant Commissioner Donald Stanton talk about how technology fits into the operations at the New York City Fire Department, one of the largest fire departments in the world. (Insider, registration required.)

Paul Glen: The 'Low Affect' Effect

Business people expect their colleagues to express enthusiasm openly, and they don't recognize hard work as an expression of commitment to their goals.