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5 Key Benefits Gamification Brings to Your Business

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. Full Story »
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How to Apply Transformational Leadership at Your Company

Transformational leadership is only one style of management, but it has the potential to empower your workforce to do more than you thought possible.

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Get New IT Pros Up to Speed Fast With This Onboarding Checklist

Whether it's due to high turnover and or a slowly improving IT job market, companies must increasingly deal with new employees entering the workplace. Learn what it takes to help your new hires hit the ground running.

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5 Ways to Evaluate Your IT Outsourcing Maturity

Answering these questions will help you determine your IT organization's outsourcing maturity in order to improve your IT service provider outcomes.

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IT Service Providers and Universities Partner to Develop U.S. Outsourcing Talent

CIO.com talked to a domestic outsourcing provider about partnering with universities to build a domestic outsourcing model, growing dissatisfaction with offshoring, the real problem with Gen Y, and how immigration reform might impact outsourcing in the U.S.

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Lessons Learned at Invite-Only Performance Testing Conference

Starting with data and using it to get to the heart of the matter isn't the way IT conference sessions go. Then again, the invitation-only Workshop on Performance and Reliability isn't your typical IT conference. The real value is what happens when it's 'open season' on the presenter and the real 'sense making' can begin.

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Is Microsoft's Office 365 Bet Starting to Pay Off in Enterprise Adoption?

Microsoft's subscription-desktop hybrid application updated from the cloud may trigger wider Office 365 adoption in the enterprise, at least that's what the software giant is banking on with its new Office365 ProPlus offering.

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How to Use Gamification to Engage Employees

More companies are adopting gamification to improve engagement with both employees and customers. Learn why gamification is an evolution in management practices, how to get started and where career opportunities lie.

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Why Agile Isn't Working: Bringing Common Sense to Agile Principles

Agile promises many things, but the reality in the field is often very far from the expectations. Is it agile we need--or an agile way of thinking?

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Government CIOs Eye Business Apps in Cloud Transition

The shift to cloud computing underway across the federal government could eventually move from commodity functions to custom business apps

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Federal CIOs Must Embrace Hybrid IT in Shift to Cloud

Top Gartner analyst urges government tech leaders to keep mission objectives and service approach in mind as they move IT processes to the cloud.

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The Hidden Dark Side of Today's Hottest Tech Trends

New technologies and new IT strategies are here to solve all your problems -- except the ones they create.

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How India's IT Outsourcing Leaders Can Stay on Top

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 eight things Indian outsourcers need to do to grow.

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How to Know When to Hire Internally and When to Look Outside

In a perfect world promoting internally is a good way to lower costs, create a talent pipeline and build morale. However, in the real world, you must weigh those benefits against the need to get the right skillset for the job.

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HP Updates IT Automation Suite for Cloud Deployments

Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds.