- Trump expected to cut federal IT spending
“Initiatives like data center consolidation and adoption of cloud services – even though not completely successful – have set the table for leaner spending,” Bjorklund said.
The Trump administration will be helped as well by declines in the cost of IT. It will likely put modernization investments on hold “until they can figure out the way ahead,” Bjorklund said.
- Make your conference calls stink less…
You need to assume that some of what you’re saying just isn’t going to get through. So go over your key points quickly yet frequently. Think of them as road signs that remind your audience where you’re heading: If you don’t check in every so often, they might get lost. You don’t have to repeat the message in the same exact way every time, but reinforcing your ideas is a must when so many other factors (both technological and human) are conspiring against you.
- This Video Explains Why “I Don’t Have Time” Is a Poor Excuse
- The Best Questions to Ask in Every Job Interview Round
“What are the Immediate Projects You’d Like Me to Work on in the First 30, 60, and 90 days?”
With this one, you’ll get a sense of what types of tasks your new manager will want you to work on when you first start work. The key here is to keep digging until you’re clear on the first set of expectations for the role.
http://lifehacker.com/the-best-questions-to-ask-in-every-job-interview-round-1792859446
- Rethinking Sourcing Suites and Their Sub Components — Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant
And as procurement organizations increasingly mass-customize how they deliver value to the business and the technology approaches and providers they use to deliver those new capabilities and associated outcomes, we believe that evaluative exercises need to be ever more tailored to an individual organization’s needs. For subscribers, Gartner is moving in this direction as well (which we applaud). But static reports that take six months to create and then are updated every two years with monolithic graphics run counter to this trend.
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