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August
2004
TECH POLL REPORT
Tech Spending Forecast Remains Strong
for Second Half of the Year
CIOs Shift from Focus on Cost-Reduction
to Outpacing Competitors
BY
LORRAINE COSGROVE WARE, CIO Magazine
CIOs
were confident again this month regarding
budgets for the coming year. According
to the July CIO Magazine Tech Poll, IT
budgets will grow by 8.1 percent in the
next 12 months. IT executives further
reported that IT budgets increased by
7 percent over the past year -- an 18-month
high. Upgrading computer hardware and
networking equipment remain high on the
CIOâs to-do list for 2004.
When
asked about IT spending in eight specific
areas, the percent of respondents planning
to increase investments remained relatively
flat at 45 percent in July. Continuing
their upgrades of aging infrastructure,
more than half (54%) of the 262 executives
surveyed plan to increase spending on
computer hardware and 49 percent will
increase spending on data networking equipment.
Read
the rest of this story.
Industry
News
IBM
to Help Train Students for IT Work
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From eWeek (Topic: Staffing), July 20:
IBM on Tuesday announced a new project
to help prepare college students for work
in the IT world. The project, called the
IBM Academic Initiative, is an effort
by IBM to support colleges and institutions
that support open standards and open-source
software, with free IBM software and discounted
or free hardware systems, said Buell Duncan,
vice president of ISV and developer relations
at Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM. Read
the rest of this story.
Collaboration:
All Together Now
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From CIOInsight: Collaborative technologies
such as Web conferencing and online workspaces
promise to improve productivity -- if
you can get people to use them. Better
get ready, since VoIP may lead to convergence
of these technologies sooner rather than
later. Read
the rest of this story.
Career
Tip
Tips
to Remembering Someone's Name
As you are introduced, concentrate on
the person. Look for an unusual or distinctive
feature. When introduced, repeat the person's
name. Link any distinctive feature with
the name as you repeat it. Glance back
at the person a few times to reinforce
the link. Later that day, write down the
names of all the people you met and the
mental picture you associate with them.
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