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We know that games are being used in all sorts of ways, from SAP using them to woo analysts with its products to the U.S. government using them to deal with pirates or to debug weapons systems... More >
A survey of UK finance directors has been creating a buzz with the finding that 17 percent of respondents believe the CIO position will disappear entirely in the next five years. That's cert... More >
When I saw the Computerworld headline, “Chief mobility officer: The next big IT job?” I thought it was another post on workers bringing in consumer devices . It seemed another in a long ... More >
With Microsoft due to release SQL Server 2012 in a couple of weeks, there's much to learn there. The new version will add new capabilities for the cloud and management of Big Data. But in a p... More >
Upscale Nordstrom, originally just a shoe company, is the defining department store in Seattle, largely through its focus on customer service. It weathered the recession better than many of its peers... More >
At a time when it's doing massive cost-cutting and layoffs in other parts of the business, Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini plans to quadruple the number of people on staff with expertise... More >
Though everyone has been trying to figure out what the essential skills are for cloud computing, as I wrote last year, one of the surest ways to gain those skills is to volunteer for any projects ... More >
I wrote last month about the struggle to find Hadoop talent and how that could stymie adoption of the Big Data solution. Forrester analyst James Kobielus believes the answer to the talent sh... More >
An interesting New York Times article looks at IBM's search not only for patterns in Big Data, but also for overlap in various fields and possible reuse of algorithms. It quotes Steve Mill... More >
New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin's popularity seems similar to that of a shooting star. It's a compelling story: Harvard grad and Asian guy defying stereotypes to make it in the NBA. Then being c... More >
When I interviewed Deborah Vazquez, CEO of Boca Raton, Fla., IT staffing firm Protech , last August, she made the case that tech pros don't have to wait until they retire if they dream of moving t... More >
A new role is cropping up as insurance companies become more focused on customer experience and try to glean insights from their data on how to improve it. Forrester analyst Paul Hagen calls ... More >
Foote Partners CEO David Foote isn't buying that the January jobs numbers were "unambiguously good," as one analyst put it. The Labor Department on Friday announced that 243,000 jobs were added to ... More >
My colleague Ann All last fall quoted executive recruiter Tim Cook from a silicon.com piece saying that IT has become "less about running infrastructure and data systems well, and more about IT pro... More >
I've written a lot about how companies try to build a culture where engineers want to work. We've had glimpses before of the Facebook culture, though the social network's IPO filing lays that out i... More >
With Facebook expected to file for its IPO today after the markets close, there's talk that it will create “1,000 overnight millionaires,” as Google's 2004 IPO did. That's on paper, and not until t... More >
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