Home Depot Canada uses IT to dramatically improve customer service and responsiveness, and I thought of this novel notion amid my own frustration in seeking retail human contact.
IT World Canada's second-annual salary and job satisfaction survey is repeating a familiar refrain. (see the calculator and report at: http://www.itworldcanada.com/salarycalculator/). Similar to what...
In case you haven't heard, information technology is going "green" - or at least making the attempt. In a perfect world, we'd all be motivated to do our part, but a considerable amount of evidence suggests green is far from top-of-mind for many IT purchasers. In truth, many business and IT professionals couldn't care less about green.
Innovation in business IT has for the longest time traveled along a top-down path. Throughout history, the IT vendor community largely looked to develop systems, tools and applications specifically for larger companies. Eventually over time, these products slowly made their way down market as somewhat less functional and significantly cheaper offerings for smaller business.