From Under the Rug

The more sensitive it is, the more it warrants discussion

Development of Social Collaboration Tool Gets a Woman’s Touch from a CIO

22 May, 2013

Question: What do you get when you combine social networking, project collaboration and a woman’s touch from a high-profile CIO? Answer: Kona. ...More >

The Questions About Its IPsoft Partnership That Infosys Was Afraid It Would Have to Answer

20 May, 2013

Unanswered background questions many in IT would like to see. ...More >

Professor Norm Matloff Responds to Turnaround Exec’s Call for More H-1B Visas

15 May, 2013

In my post on Monday, I wrote about global leadership, business and strategy consultant Kathleen Brush’s view that the United States needs to increase the number of foreign workers on H-1B visas in this country. ...More >

How a Health Insurance Provider Uses Big Data to Predict Patient Needs

14 May, 2013

It’s all about Big Data and predictive analytics, and if there’s one place predictive analytics vendors see dollar signs, it’s the health care market. ...More >

Corporate Turnaround Exec: Raising H-1B Visa Cap Just Makes Economic Sense

13 May, 2013

There’s probably no more hotly contested issue in the IT realm than the legitimacy of the H-1B visa program, and the concomitant debate over whether there is a shortage of workers in the United States who have the technology skills that companies need. ...More >

Cleaning Up IT Management Messes: Dirty Work, But Somebody Has to Do It

10 May, 2013

The hired gun was Kathleen Brush, a corporate turnaround specialist who grew up in IT, rode in to fix 12 broken IT companies in those 15 years, and went on to establish a global leadership, business and strategy consulting practice. ...More >

IT Organizations Need to Bridge the ‘Culturational’ Gap

07 May, 2013

Tru Pettigrew is devoting his career to making it comprehensible by helping to bridge the multicultural, multigenerational—he calls it “culturational”—gap that’s the new reality. ...More >

The Art of Being Noticed as a Woman in IT

02 May, 2013

If you’re a woman in IT, perhaps you’ve noticed how difficult it can be to have your voice heard in a world where men tend to dominate just about everything that goes on. ...More >

Balance of Power in Software Realm Shifts from Vendors to Users, PwC Finds

29 Apr, 2013

According to the findings of a study, it’s now the software vendors who have to make a choice: Meet the customer’s demands or watch the sale go elsewhere. ...More >

India Pulls Out the Stops in Opposition to H-1B Provisions in Immigration Reform Bill

25 Apr, 2013

If you thought the H-1B provisions of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill introduced in the Senate last week by the “Gang of Eight” are causing a stir here in the United States, you should see what’s happening in India. ...More >