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• In a symbolic shift, IBM's India workforce likely exceeds U.S.

  It has been widely expected over the past year or two that IBM's India workforce was on track to exceed its U.S. workforce, if it hadn't exceeded it already.

• Women in IT: How deep is the bench?

  Superstar women lead IT at some of the biggest global corporations, yet the path to the top isn't clear for the next generation.

• Online holiday shopping at work may be huge suck on time, bandwidth

  With Black Friday just a week away and the nagging feeling that we need to get our holiday shopping done, the question is how much online buying will actually be done at work?

• Stop working and start innovating:<br /> It can pay off

  Savvy IT departments that set aside time for employee creativity say the payoffs include happier workers, increased productivity and sometimes even revenue.

• The quest for IT talent

  That noise you hear is the scrape of chairs being pushed back, laptops snapping shut and your ICT staff walking out the door. The war for talent is on again — if it ever stopped — and as with all wars, there will be victors, survivors and casualties. Identifying, retaining and developing talent never gets easier. There are only degrees of difficulty. What should you do to attract and groom good people? How can you make your IT organisation one that offers interesting roles and compelling career prospects? How can you avoid becoming collateral damage in the war?

• How to Keep Your Data Center Happy for the Holidays

  In the brick-and-mortar world, this holiday season is shaping up to be a wash: More people are shopping, but they are spending less.

• How to Manage a Stressed Staff

  Help! My staff is stressed about job security, so work conflicts are intensified. How can I handle this?

• Gavin Michael: The Lloyds TSB Global Villager

  Commuting between Australia and the UK is just another challenge for Gavin Michael, the CIO of retail banking at Lloyds TSB.

• An Objective Method for Evaluating Project Managers' Performance

  Project managers are ultimately responsible for making sure projects are completed on time, on budget and with the features and functionality specified by the project's stakeholders. So one would presume that project managers' performance would be evaluated based on those same criteria. It sounds obvious, right?