Training in Business Resources and Trends
Are you interested in earning a higher salary? In this series, I’ve embarked on an expedition to explore and filter through data from Global Knowledge’s eighth annual IT Skills and Salary Report to discover correlations in situations where professionals report a higher income. In this post, I’m looking at the best and worst states to work based on the average reported salary.
Read moreThe shift from classroom instructor-led training to online remote or virtual instructor-led training (VILT) is by no means easy.
Read moreSuccessful business-IT alignment requires more than a good relationship between the chief information officer (CIO) and other C-level executives. To realize the full benefits that successful business-IT alignment can deliver, there needs to be alignment at three levels.
Read moreIn my last blog, I wrote that business analysts are really business-systems analysts — where business and systems are joined to make one word. Business systems are interdependent and interrelated organic and/or mechanical entities, which come together to create value for the organization and the rest of its stakeholders. Complex systems involving people and machines, mired in issues, constraints and other problems, require systems-oriented thinking to identify the true solution. To find the root cause to an issue, systems-oriented thinking requires a business-systems analyst to examine problems by breaking them into constitute elements; looking at each of them independently and again as various permutations or combinations until identified underlying patterns lead to solution options.
Read moreWhich of the following is not a form of single sign‐on?
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