management: research

  • Organisations tend to resist change with well-developed immune systems.

  • A line new manager needs to be aware that the strategies adopted in the IT professional role are unlikely to guarantee success in the new role

  • Many IT firms have announced job cuts over the past few months

  • Economic downturns alter organisational dynamics and can herald changes in the executive power hierarchy

  • Inside attackers frequently have a pre-existing grudge which is work-related, so IT management attention must be given now to dealing with the "soft side" of their staff and contractors.

  • The problem for some technologies, as they try to defend their purpose and role in a downturn, is their weak business case and lack of track record

  • Despite the growing body of information available on data breaches, many executives remain unjustifiably overconfident in their organisations' security capabilities.

  • It will take six to nine months for the first real signs of progress from the integration of HP and EDS to emerge.

  • Resolving these desktop concerns requires much more than simply migrating the existing desktop images to the data centre and running them in a virtualised environment.

  • Google App Engine, Amazon Simple Storage Service and Apple's MobileMe service have all experienced some high-profile service outages in the past few months

  • Despite perceptions of uneasy relations, Fairfax Business Research's recent survey of both CIOs and CFOs reveals a good deal of mutual interest and a positive working relationship, Beverley Uther writes.

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