One of the most important parts of being an IT manager is your ability to create an operating budget for your team. In order for your team to be able to accomplish everything that is expected of them, there will be costs and they’ll do things that (hopefully) generate revenue for the company. Click here to learn more…
IT managers are being viewed as the key to the company’s long-term success. Which industry you say? It’s the power industry. Let me explain… Click here to learn more…
Who out there likes to create budgets each year? Probably nobody – it takes a lot of work! I’ve got some good news for you, there might be a simpler way to do all of this. All too often IT managers sit down and try to create a single master budget. This can be very hard to do. I’ve got a better way for you to accomplish the same thing in a much shorter amount of time! Click here to learn more…
If an IT Manager picks up the paper, it seems like hackers are everywhere and getting into everything. Dare I say these modern day cyber pirates seem almost unstoppable? If it turns out that there is no way to keep hackers from breaking into the systems that your IT dream team is creating, then should a IT Manager really spend a lot of time and money trying to keep them out? Click here to learn more…
The one management task that most IT managers fear the most is the process of creating a new budget for their team. One of the reasons that I believe that this critical task is feared so much is simply because most IT managers don’t realize that there are many different types of budgets that they can create. Click here to learn more…
What you can accomplish as an IT manager is closely tied to how much money the company is willing to entrust you with. The more money that they are willing to give you, the more you’ll be able to get done. The way that you’ll get your hands on the company’s money is to create a budget and then manage it. Let’s talk about what you’ll need to know in order to do this correctly… Click here to learn more…
What set of skills does it take in order to become a really good IT manager? If you said good technical skills, well then that’s assumed. What you may not know is that it’s going to take good social skills to do this job right.
Dr. Anderson takes a look at research that has been done on what it takes to be a good IT manager. What he uncovers is that there are a set of social skills that you are going to need in order to succeed. Dr. Anderson explains what you need — and why you need it!
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Can we all agree that the era of cloud computing is almost upon us? That’s all great and such, but what is this going to mean for IT leaders? In the worst case your senior management is going to be flying somewhere and they’re going to read one of those trade magazines, discover that there’s something called “the cloud” and come back and tell you to do something about it. What then? Click here to learn more…
Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year and don’t know who Zynga is, they’re the online game company that has ridden Facebook’s coattails to success. They’ve created very, very popular games such as Farmville and Cityville and generated a great deal of money. However, it’s starting to become clear that Zynga is not very well run and this holds many lessons for IT Managers… Click here to learn more…
Oh, oh, looks like it’s budgeting time again. Whoever had any training in how to do this? Sure you’ve always managed your personal money fairly well, but now the company is asking you to create a budget that will take care of your team for the next year. Oh, and it’s due tomorrow. What’s an IT manager to do? Click here to learn more…
