Deciding whether to train and promote your current staff or bring in new blood is a choice many IT leaders face on a regular basis. The best decision, of course, depends on many variables. The first step is answering these six questions.
The retailer is using Microsoft PixelSense, Kinect and a new mobile app to create an interactive experience while making stuffed animals
The term 'gamification' may be new, but the concept has been around for some time - just think credit card rewards programs. Despite the buzz and proven results, many companies are still not sure about using gamification. Here are five key reasons why your business should be gamifying.
IT organizations and CIOs don't contract and outsource to countries, they contract and outsource to companies. Given that, it's time to stop assessing location-based risk in a vacuum because sometimes the 'riskiest' suppliers may have the most innovative solutions.
PC giant unveils far-ranging government cloud offering that features both dedicated, private deployments as well as shared, multitenant systems with turnkey security and compliance features.
Whether you work in IT or any competitive field, a résumé that doesn't quickly illustrate who you are, what you do and why an employer needs you will be summarily dismissed.
The shift to cloud computing underway across the federal government could eventually move from commodity functions to custom business apps
Top Gartner analyst urges government tech leaders to keep mission objectives and service approach in mind as they move IT processes to the cloud.
One IT leader with a background in marketing offers advice for bridging the two worlds.
When these companies went global, they leveraged IT to unify, localize and lay the foundation for future growth
IT departments usually have careful plans for what to do in natural disasters, but they need a litigation-readiness plan, too, so they'll be ready to handle ediscovery requests
India's application development and maintenance business will take a hit if a provision of the U.S. Senate immigration bill becomes law, and some experts say the restrictions will drive more outsourcing offshore.
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the White House's digital government strategy, a new study from the Mobile Work Exchange takes stock of how agencies are pressing ahead with mobility plans.
After a decade of double-digit growth, India's offshore IT outsourcing leaders must shift strategies if they want to continue to dominate in technology services as growth slows in a maturing market. Here are six things Indian outsourcers need to do to grow.
eBay CIO Scott Seese says he and his team are using technology and innovation to drive the company's mission of connected commerce. He explains how the ecommerce giant taps into the power of social and mobile to help customers find and purchase exactly what they seek from among millions of sellers. Seese also discusses his strategy for success and why it's important to connect the dots.