Thomas Wailgum

According to one observer, mid-market IT shops need to pull up their socks

A report says IT departments in Fortune 1000 enterprises are more productive and effective service providers than mid-market counterparts and not because of the amount of staffers or money spent.

The day-to-day requirements of keeping enterprise systems up and running efficiently and ensuring a happy user base is one huge challenge, which makes it hard for most IT workers to look ahead. Yet, as Forrester Research analyst Sharyn Leaver notes in a recent report, many of these same people point to "a lack of insight into future trends as an inhibitor to their effectiveness and development."

Forrester Research examines the problems of determining the carbon footprint of companies

The proposal process was supposed to be completed by the end of last February and the system implementation started in April, which would have provided enough time to get everything ready for this Christmas season. But bad news, kids

Staying in Canada isn't the only option for technology professionals. Take a look at the pros and cons of moving to the states in this end-to-end comparison

A 2006 study from Carnegie Mellon

Read how one company upended every square foot of its warehouse operations -- its interior layout, day-to-day shipping and receiving practices, the equipment workers used and the IT systems enabling it all -- and reduced its warehouse labour costs by 30 percent, saving more than CDN$294,000 a year and vanquishing many inefficiencies that had plagued its operations.