Overly authoritarian and bureaucratic IT managers are bad for morale and productivity and are making their staff sick.
Leave the jeans at home, get a haircut and shave those sideburns because the IT industry is tightening its grip on the “dot-com culture” and everything it stands for as managers know that they don’t need to compete to hold on to their best employees.
About a year after being appointed chief executive of the National Australia Bank, Ahmed Fahour's campaign of cultural change is being boosted by improved use of the bank's Teradata customer relationship management (CRM) software package.
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If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.
A quick scan of almost any ICT department, ICT conference or vendor environment confirms that women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed.
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As the two giants tussle for domination of online advertising dollars, it's increasingly clear that this tug-of-war is really a test of each company's corporate culture.
It's never easy when a company changes its culture. As a manager, you can play a key role by embracing the changes, helping to shape your people's perceptions of change, keeping them informed, and instituting some positive changes of your own.
Micromanaging isn't necessarily a bad thing but, done to an extreme, it can hinder staff productivity.
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Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.
As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.
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IBM's continuing development of its Project eLiza initiative to create self-managing systems could make it a star-date to remember.
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