IT Management

Software engineers are not cogs, so stop treating them that way

The great flaw is in perceiving engineering talent as interchangeable and discouraging participation in product definition.

You carry their dead weight

Up to 20% of your consultants were probably rated 'below level' or 'significantly below level' in their most recent annual reviews. You need to identify their dead weight to keep it from dragging you down.

The rise of captive centers: Is it the death knell for outsourcing?

Emerging technologies are changing the way companies calculate the right balance of outsourcing and insourcing

IP Australia boosts training following messy software patent case

Dispelling 5 IT outsourcing myths

Executives at many high-growth organizations are hesitant to outsource IT, given the relative unknowns in the IT world. Those unknowns are found in five myths we commonly hear regarding IT outsourcing.

IT career roadmap: Research scientist

Amanda Stent's interest in music has helped advance her career as a research scientist as much as her mathematics and computer science background has.

Offshore and cloud service providers upset IT outsourcing’s top tier

While IBM and Accenture still command a majority of the IT services markets, the combination of offshore-centric and as-a-service competition has proven to be an u2018all-out assaultu2019 on traditional providers.

Lack of VC funding forces startups to think lean

A steady drop in venture capitalist funding has forced startups to develop new strategies to evolve their workforce -- that includes layoffs, budget cuts and a new definition of growth.rn

Drone platform in a (big) box company Airobotics eyes Australian expansion

Universities must build innovators in new ways

The future doesnu2019t care how you became an expert. The experts of tomorrow will learn differently.