Leadership/Management

Fri, May 25, 2012 - Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it would be laying-off 27,000 of its employees in a massive restructuring plan, marks a new low for the beleaguered company that recently posted a significant 31 percent drop in profits. However, HP is not the first tech company (and perhaps won't be the last either) that took a hack-and-slash approach to its workforce when facing economic uncertainty.

Fri, May 25, 2012 - The efforts of U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to streamline and improve the government's IT systems aren't proceeding as quickly as officials have suggested, however, government auditors note steady progress as departments and agencies transition to the cloud and consolidate data centers.

Fri, May 25, 2012 - Source reveals 20 percent of Autonomy staff and whole management team have left since takeover.

Thu, May 24, 2012 - Google chairman Eric Schmidt announced this week at the London Science Museum that his company would fund the U.K. charity Teach First, which will provide teacher training and student equipment, including the Raspberry Pi, for the purpose of improving computing education in the country.

Thu, May 24, 2012 - Lawrence Strickling, the lead administrator of the agency doling out stimulus money for broadband deployments, urges grant recipients to amplify success stories as program faces political persecution in election season.

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Thu, May 24, 2012 - Apple's Jonathan Ive has been knighted, an honour, he says, that is "incredibly humbling".

Wed, May 23, 2012 - Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wed, May 23, 2012 - The cuts will amount to 8 percent of HP's workforce as part of restructuring program that started last year and is to continue through 2014.

Tue, May 22, 2012 - jOBS, the Steve Jobs biopic, will be filmed in actual locations such as Jobs' childhood home and the garage where Apple began, it has been revealed.

Tue, May 22, 2012 - Run IT like a business, says one panelist at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

Mon, May 21, 2012 - International medical vendor Mediq was expanding in a big way by acquisition and needed a standard email platform across its business, but the project's cost and the complexity of doing it alone was so daunting that the company called on outside help that costs it less in the long run.

Mon, May 21, 2012 - The concept of lean software traces its origins to lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. Building software is much different than building a car, but lessons about reducing waste and achieving continuous improvement apply nonetheless.

Mon, May 21, 2012 - SAS needed a way to consolidate information repositories and wrangle millennials from using Facebook for work purposes. Here's how the business analytics company decided on and rolled out their enterprise collaboration platform, plus tips for success.