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Another look at IT Staffing – Part I
I’d like to start a new, short series on IT staffing, looking at the issues from a slightly different angle. We’ll start with the typical IT shop. It may be the kind that Nicholas Carr suggested will...
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Another Look at IT Staffing – Part II
Last time we looked at trends in staffing, and found that they fluctuate. This causes a problem with hiring, because, well, it takes time to ramp people up, and laying them off is expensive. As a...
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We’ve been dancing around the idea IT staffing, discussing both augmenting with contractors when demand gets high, as well as outsourcing with a model like IS Lite. Let’s talk a bit more about IS...
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I’ve been writing about trends in IT Staff — how the traditional role of the full-time staff is giving way to staff augmentation and services outsourcing, and how the more tech savvy crowd is...
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Is that you? Is this me?
Did you know that “We’re Sorry You’ve Been Laid Off?” condolences are now a major Hallmark greeting card category? Perhaps the greatest irony is in IT, where technology really has enabled self-service...
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IT Workers as Coal Miners? — Part II
Last time, my friend Shawn introduced his premise — that IT Workers are the coal miners of the 21st Century. This time, Shawn’s back, to explain how the shift from hourly work to exempt has changed...
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From Outsourced, to Offshore … and Back Again.
In my Informations Systems Policy Class in Graduate School (yes, they have classes for that), outsourcing was one of the hot topics of the day. Specifically, outsourcing of business process. The...
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The DDos That Wasn’t
On September 10th, the story was that an “anonymous hacker”, security lead for the internet group ‘anonymous’ has hacked into GoDaddy, taking down as many as 52 million websites. The New York Times...
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How to become IT Talent
I my previous post I suggested that the workforce is split into three general roles – ‘Labor’, ‘Crew’ and ‘Talent’ — and that it was better to be talent. In order to be talent, you need to be...
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Four Requirements for Independence
Last week, my friend RobLimo asked if I would take my ideas for independence, box them up, and do a video interview for Slashdot. The resulting video got tens of thousands of hits in two days....
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A New Twist on Offshore IT
The last time I wrote about this I was taking about Call Centers. American Companies had outsourced phone support to other countries, often India, and the results were so bad due to cultural and...
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Outsourcing My Willpower
This idea has been spinning around my brain the past week. This owes to the idea that we as a species are developing “extended cognition”, as in a part of our brain effort is now residing outside of...
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