Creating a Pipeline of Creativity

The innovative, creative employees that companies want start out as innovative, creative children. A study co-sponsored by the Conference Board suggests schools are not putting enough stress on an important way of developing creativity in the schools. Likewise, employers aren't...

The Global IT Talent Crunch

There's a worldwide IT talent and skills shortage, according to the IT Governance Institute's just released massive study, "IT Governance Global Status Report." The study can be downloaded at its Web site, www.itgi.org....

MIA: Talent Management

Seventy-two percent of senior business executives "believe people and talent are critical to their company's results", yet an amazingly low 8 percent of senior business executives "are confident in how their company currently manages talent." So why isn't corporate talent...

IT Worker Confidence Inches Up

Debate: Rewrite the IT Textbooks?

Every once in a while, a debate breaks out among nervous IT academics over why fewer undergrads are majoring or minoring in IT and what should be done about it. The latest twist involves the textbooks used in introductory IT...

CEO Confidence; Spouses; Security

Trouble for Credit Unions, Troubled by Telecommuters

Three items this evening: RSA's latest Global Online Fraud Report found 186 financial institutions were the subject of online fraud attacks during December, an increase from last month, but a sizeable decrease from December 2006. One surprise: a big upswing...

Six Sigma, Sick Workers, Etc.

Renowned researcher Tom Davenport cites five reasons why the Six Sigma quality movement is slip sliding away.... comScore Inc., which tracks Internet sales, says online holiday says rose 19 percent over last year, reaching $29.2 billion.... The role of the...

Conference Board: Computer Skills in 'High Demand'

Addendum to Hudson Index item: Any nervous IT workers might feel a bit better after seeing today's update to the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online Data Series....

New Year Rings in Anxiety for More IT Pros

2008 is starting with higher pay yet more insecurity among IT workers. According to the latest monthly Hudson Employment Index, fewer expect hiring at their company, and more IT workers expect job cuts at their company and say they are...