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	Intuit forces IT, engineers into room until they get it right Intuit recently underwent a change management overhaul with respect to how it responded to service requests from its business stake holders. The result was requests that had taken eight weeks to fulfill dropped to one day. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue GM to hire 3,000 HP employees as it insources IT work INSIDER Robert L. Mitchell: Top 10 IT Jobs: The hot - and the not so hot Sony to cut jobs at TV group and headquarters, and close Japanese phone factory Tata beats rival Infosys in revenue, profit growth Thornton May: 3 questions every CIO must answer INSIDER Help desks change with the times The Grill: Energy Plus CIO Hugh Scott 45 years of creative evolution in the IT industry and beyond Scot Finnie: Where will IT be in 5 years? Top 10 technologies of the past 45 years RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! GM to hire 3,000 HP employees as it insources IT work HP has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house, the two companies announced Thursday. Read More INSIDER Robert L. Mitchell: Top 10 IT Jobs: The hot - and the not so hot Are you on a hot career track - or a dead end? A recent salary survey may provide some clues. Insider (registration required) Read More Sony to cut jobs at TV group and headquarters, and close Japanese phone factory Sony said its current round of job cuts will include workers in its struggling TV business and at its headquarters in Tokyo, and it will close a mobile phone and lens factory in central Japan. Read More Tata beats rival Infosys in revenue, profit growth Tata Consultancy Services on Friday reported strong revenue and profit growth in the third quarter, citing a pick-up in discretionary spending by customers. Read More Thornton May: 3 questions every CIO must answer What business is IT in today? What business should it be in tomorrow? What should the 'I' in 'CIO' signify? Read More WHITE PAPER: Compuware Overcome Limitations of Traditional APM Discover a 3rd generation approach that proactively prevents performance, scalability and stability issues from ever reaching production in the first place. Learn More. INSIDER Help desks change with the times Research firm Gartner is predicting the demise of the help desk, but tech support veterans say reports of the death of the help desk are greatly exaggerated. Insider (registration required) Read More The Grill: Energy Plus CIO Hugh Scott CIO Hugh Scott decided to move to the cloud within months of joining Energy Plus Holdings. Here, he discusses the challenges of moving into a leadership position at a new company, the importance of forging relationships with vendor partners and his approach to building a motivated IT team. Read More 45 years of creative evolution in the IT industry and beyond As Computerworld celebrates its 45th anniversary, IT executives and pundits look back over decades of change that brought stunning technological advancements -- and put more power in users' hands. Read More Scot Finnie: Where will IT be in 5 years? Most IT predictions are two-dimensional, featuring forecasts in which the big trend of the day takes over and completely changes IT. Read More Top 10 technologies of the past 45 years A look at some of the products that have helped push rapid change in the IT industry over the past few decades. Read More
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