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• IDG's Computerworld Names Paychex to Annual List of Best Places to Work in Information Technology; Second Year on the List for Leading Payroll and HR Services Company

  - 2006-07-06

  ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- IDG's Computerworld, the "Voice of IT Management," has selected Paychex, Inc. as one of the top 100 workplaces for information technology IT professionals. This honor is part of the weekly IT publication's 13th annual Best Places to Work in IT survey, which was published in the June...

  Tags: Computerworld, Human Resources, information technology, International Data Group, Paychex Inc., payroll

• Coping With the Compliance Headache

  BNET - 2006-04-11

  More and more, business is being driven through regulation. Multiple regulations, from Sarbanes-Oxley to HIPAA and beyond, will have a big impact on cost but will do nothing for the revenue side. The question becomes how to minimize the impact on business operations. What if IT had a single configurable...

  Tags: Compliance, International Data Group, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Hipaa, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Healthcare

• Opening a Virtual Gateway to Better Health

  BNET - 2006-03-15

  For decades, the 17 Health and Human Services HHS agencies in Massachusetts operated separately and constructed separate systems within their own fiefdoms. Each had its own business processes for common tasks like applying for benefits and eligibility determination and used different forms to collect similar data. HHS was referred to...

  Tags: Gateway Inc., U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Health Care, International Data Group, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Gender And Diversity, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

• Survivor: The Organization

  BNET - 2006-03-01

  The up-or-out process provides an easy road for managers who would rather focus on the low-hanging fruit of structure and talent assessment and defer more difficult decisions regarding strategy and career development. In many organizations, organizational planning has been reduced to endless hours spent tinkering with org charts (in the...

  Tags: International Data Group, Professional Development, Workforce Management, Career, Human Resources

• Move It or Lose

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  IT leaders can create a fast and flexible process to develop and deploy new business applications. That process has to enable agility by showing IT employees how to move forward in quick, focused steps. Since all jobs expand to fill whatever time is available, an agile process requires one to...

  Tags: Information Technology, International Data Group, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Big Deals, Big Savings, Big Problems

  BNET - 2006-02-01

  When strategic relationships are good, they're very good. Client and vendor work together, and the benefits accrue to both parties' bottom lines. But when they are bad, they're awful. Client and vendor can develop an adversarial relationship and become embroiled in bitter contract battles. In fact, half of all strategic...

  Tags: International Data Group, Business Structures, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources

• The Changing CIO Role: The Dual Demands of Strategy and Execution

  BNET - 2006-01-01

  In the very first "State of the CIO" special issue, published in 2002, CIO asked several knowledgeable observers to speculate on the future of the CIO role. Some predicted that the job would split into two distinct types: a strategic CIO who would focus on creating value through technology, and...

  Tags: CIO, International Data Group, Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

• Blue Skies Ahead for IT Jobs

  BNET - 2005-12-01

  The latest figures from the U.S. Department of Labor show that the number of computing-related jobs has surpassed the previous peak in 2000. What is more, computing-related jobs are no longer an isolated component of American industries; IT underpins every function of the business community - market research, product design,...

  Tags: Job, Information Technology, International Data Group, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

• Are CIOs Headed for Extinction?

  BNET - 2005-10-18

  In the age of compliance, there's a heightened interest in data management, data cleansing, and data warehousing. "Data governance" appears to be the catchphrase of the day to describe this new emphasis. Sarbanes-Oxley is also changing how companies aggregate data. In the past, everyone sent their spreadsheets to the CFO,...

  Tags: CFO, International Data Group, Data Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Productivity, Regulatory Compliance, Storage, Business Intelligence, Databases, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

• Outsource, Don't Abdicate

  BNET - 2005-10-01

  When a company sheds operations through outsourcing, does it also shed its responsibility - ethical and otherwise - for how those operations are run? Companies today rely more and more on partnerships with third parties for everything ranging from supplies and manufacturing to product design and distribution. In this so-called...

  Tags: Outsource, International Data Group, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business Ethics, Business Structures, Outsourcing, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Product Marketing, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Marketing