http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant Information technology has no shortage of controversial, paradoxical and otherwise stimulating conversations going at any one time. Questioning conventional wisdom and unearthing difficult questions leads to a better work environment for everyone. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:32:09 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-02-09T23:32:09Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738 Several years ago I interviewed the CEO of Novell, who told me that in order to obtain the skills the company needed, in the past 12 months he had replaced a quarter of his work force rather than retrain them. The reason? He had to maximize shareholder business_culture staff_recruiting_and_retention Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:54:49 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided/?cs=49738 2012-02-09T23:54:49Z 3 days, 6 minutes ago 6 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/why-the-maximize-shareholder-value-mantra-is-misguided http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49738 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721 In an interview last week with an Indian media outlet, Infosys CFO V. Balakrishnan claimed that Infosys had “not violated any of the rules” relating to U.S. visa policies. Unless others at Infosys have kept Balakrishnan in some sort of protective bubble business_ethics h-1b_visas litigation infosys Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:23:18 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission/?cs=49721 2012-02-08T02:23:18Z 4 days, 21 hours ago 9 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/infosys-cfo-publicly-claims-no-visa-violations-despite-company-s-internal-admission http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49721 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698 In a glaring demonstration of how incoherently Infosys is handling the lawsuit brought against the company by Infosys employee and whistleblower Jay Palmer, the company’s attorneys deposed Palmer on Friday to question him on the same counts that they business_ethics litigation infosys h-1b_visas Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:16:08 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion/?cs=49698 2012-02-05T22:16:08Z 1 week, 2 hours ago 24 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/infosys-flounders-deposes-whistleblower-despite-dismissal-motion http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49698 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/10-hot-button-job-interview-question-areas-to-get-ready-for/?cs=49685 10 Interview Questions Job Seekers Must Ask The most important questions of an interview might be those that you, the applicant, ask. If you’re not unemployed or underemployed, you may well be one of the millions of people who’ve managed to keep your staff_recruiting_and_retention Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:43:53 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/10-hot-button-job-interview-question-areas-to-get-ready-for/?cs=49685 2012-02-03T01:43:53Z 1 week, 2 days ago 4 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/10-hot-button-job-interview-question-areas-to-get-ready-for http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49685 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/you-re-not-the-only-one-who-wants-to-choke-the-jargon-guy/?cs=49676 We all have our jargon pet peeves. Mine is “solution,” the word vendors use incessantly when they really just mean “product.” This perfectly wholesome word has been usurped and so bastardized by sales wonks that a lot of us consider it toxic. In fact, business_communications business_culture Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:58:31 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/you-re-not-the-only-one-who-wants-to-choke-the-jargon-guy/?cs=49676 2012-02-02T04:58:31Z 1 week, 3 days ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/you-re-not-the-only-one-who-wants-to-choke-the-jargon-guy http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49676 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/dumb-and-dumber-no-voter-id-required-no-national-id-allowed/?cs=49665 Top Online Privacy Predictions for 2012  I have a hunch that the people who argue against requiring voters to prove their identity are pretty much the same crowd that argues against the idea of having a national ID card. Neither argument makes any identity_management privacy legislation_and_regulation biometric_systems Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:12:51 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/dumb-and-dumber-no-voter-id-required-no-national-id-allowed/?cs=49665 2012-02-01T14:12:51Z 1 week, 4 days ago 13 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/dumb-and-dumber-no-voter-id-required-no-national-id-allowed http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49665 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/stranger-than-fiction-infosys-seeks-more-us-government-business/?cs=49638 Despite its acknowledgement last week that some of its employees, along with the company itself, are targets of the federal government’s criminal investigation of alleged visa fraud, Infosys is still proclaiming that it is “increasingly bidding for government_agencies infosys litigation h-1b_visas Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:24:29 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/stranger-than-fiction-infosys-seeks-more-us-government-business/?cs=49638 2012-01-29T19:24:29Z 2 weeks, 4 hours ago 36 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/stranger-than-fiction-infosys-seeks-more-us-government-business http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49638 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-warns-of-adverse-consequences-of-feds-criminal-investigation/?cs=49607 In a routine filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Infosys acknowledged that the company and some of its employees are targets of the U.S. government’s criminal investigation of alleged visa fraud, and warned that the potential h-1b_visas government_agencies infosys litigation business_ethics Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:58:10 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/infosys-warns-of-adverse-consequences-of-feds-criminal-investigation/?cs=49607 2012-01-25T18:58:10Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago 6 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/infosys-warns-of-adverse-consequences-of-feds-criminal-investigation http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49607 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/with-options-limited-infosys-tries-dismissal-tack-in-palmer-case/?cs=49602 In what appears to be a desperate attempt to avoid having to release damning information as federal authorities close in with their criminal investigation, Infosys on Monday filed a motion to dismiss five of the six counts in the civil lawsuit filed by h-1b_visas infosys litigation Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:32:47 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/with-options-limited-infosys-tries-dismissal-tack-in-palmer-case/?cs=49602 2012-01-25T03:32:47Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/with-options-limited-infosys-tries-dismissal-tack-in-palmer-case http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49602 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/do-us-tech-workers-have-the-fire-in-the-belly-that-foreign-workers-do/?cs=49575 10 Tech Skills that Are Heading the Way of the Dinosaur I don’t claim to know precisely how pervasive the phenomenon is, but I do know that there are way too many U.S. workers who feel a sense of entitlement when it comes to job security, and that business_culture staff_training Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:44:33 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/do-us-tech-workers-have-the-fire-in-the-belly-that-foreign-workers-do/?cs=49575 2012-01-23T03:44:33Z 2 weeks, 6 days ago 20 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/do-us-tech-workers-have-the-fire-in-the-belly-that-foreign-workers-do http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49575 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/eight-ways-to-avoid-wasting-money-on-your-tech-gadgets/?cs=49563 Come on, admit it. No matter how tech-savvy you are, you’re probably like the rest of us and would love to have at least one do-over after buying a tech gadget. Maybe you realized after the fact that you paid way more than you had to for it. Maybe what consumer_electronics cost_containment Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:11:51 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/eight-ways-to-avoid-wasting-money-on-your-tech-gadgets/?cs=49563 2012-01-19T23:11:51Z 3 weeks, 3 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/eight-ways-to-avoid-wasting-money-on-your-tech-gadgets http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49563 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/want-to-bring-about-change-at-work-become-a-constructive-irritant/?cs=49540 When you see something in your company that needs to be changed, you’re likely to address the issue in one of two ways: You’ll either complain about it and spell out what other people need to do to bring about the change, or you’ll step up and, without business_culture Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:33:32 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/want-to-bring-about-change-at-work-become-a-constructive-irritant/?cs=49540 2012-01-18T03:33:32Z 3 weeks, 4 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/want-to-bring-about-change-at-work-become-a-constructive-irritant http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49540 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/can-the-darkened-soul-of-infosys-be-saved/?cs=49529 If companies had souls, what might we conclude about the soul of Infosys, given the way it has managed the crisis that arose in the fall of 2010 when Infosys employee Jay Palmer blew the whistle on the rampant visa and tax fraud he observed in the giant infosys jay_palmer business_ethics h-1b_visas john_izzo Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:37:30 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/can-the-darkened-soul-of-infosys-be-saved/?cs=49529 2012-01-17T02:37:30Z 3 weeks, 5 days ago 22 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/can-the-darkened-soul-of-infosys-be-saved http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49529 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/nine-tips-to-help-you-overcome-workplace-overload/?cs=49502 Eight FREE BlackBerry Productivity Apps January isn’t even half over yet, but you probably already feel like you’ve fallen behind in accomplishing what you need to accomplish this year. In many cases rampant layoffs have created enormous workloads for strategic_planning productivity management_philosophies Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:45:34 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/nine-tips-to-help-you-overcome-workplace-overload/?cs=49502 2012-01-12T03:45:34Z 1 month, 1 day ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/nine-tips-to-help-you-overcome-workplace-overload http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49502 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-do-it-pros-tend-to-have-such-lousy-people-skills/?cs=49487 If the Job Fits Five questions you should ask before accepting your next IT job. As much as we all might find stereotyping distasteful, it would probably be difficult to refute the contention that people who gravitate toward the IT profession tend to staff_training business_culture Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:56:04 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/why-do-it-pros-tend-to-have-such-lousy-people-skills/?cs=49487 2012-01-11T03:56:04Z 1 month, 2 days ago 7 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/why-do-it-pros-tend-to-have-such-lousy-people-skills http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49487