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Insight
This issue of CBR is grounded in the double loop of influence between IT and behavior as it relates to Gen Y. We asked our contributors to discuss this deeply rooted connection and to provide us with insight and guidelines on how we can successfully integrate the members of this new generation into our organizations. I am hopeful that after having read both of their pieces you feel more confident and optimistic about the opportunities that can accompany Gen Y's imminent entry into your IT shops and, more generally, your organizations.
Platform of Opportunity
The Web as platform will enable firms to collaborate and manage relationships more effectively, deliver more value to new and existing markets, improve software development processes and products, and more fully integrate Web and mobile technologies.
As the Web continually develops, new opportunities are created but can be exploited only by those with clear insight and actionable foresight.
It should seem rather trite to say that the Web presents opportunities as a platform for collaboration. After all, the very origin of the Web roughly 20 years ago was rooted in the desire to provide the user of computer A with an easy way to access information residing on computer B.
Abstract
The success of enterprises depends upon their ability to define, prioritize, and execute mission-critical projects successfully. Project management is essential, but which project managers (PMs) best serve the organization?
A common aphorism suggests that "good project managers always get projects done on time and on budget." This is simplistic and propagates a destructive and dangerous misconception. Imagine a project manager working on a project that is likely to complete on time and on budget.
Although offshoring has existed in a variety of forms for decades, its controversy continues unabated. The debate includes whether offshoring actually saves money or not, what activities are and are not good candidates for offshoring, and most controversial of all, its effect on employment in the consuming countries. This Executive Report discusses the offshoring phenomena in an historical context, investigates whether offshoring has actually resulted in IT-related job losses, and examines its effect on IT-related occupations in the US and Europe.
Although offshoring has existed in a variety of forms for decades, its controversy continues unabated. The debate includes whether offshoring actually saves money or not, what activities are and are not good candidates for offshoring, and most controversial of all, its effect on employment in the consuming countries.