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The Perils of a Bad Hire

Written on January 3, 2012

We discuss all the problems that can arise from making a bad hire; poor team cohesion, low productivity, attendance issues, personality problems, and more.

A Holiday Greeting from Morton

Written on December 20, 2011

Get your groove on with Morton Consulting this Christmas!

Don’t Forget the IT Department

Written on December 15, 2011

A recent survey of CIO’s indicates that internal IT departments are often out of the loop when it comes to third-party services such as cloud and SaaS.

Time for a SSD Upgrade?

Written on December 13, 2011

While solid-state drives (SSD) are undeniably the wave of the future, there are some good reasons to consider carefully whether now is the time to upgrade.

Keeping Pace in the IT Industry

Written on December 1, 2011

Changing with the times is part of life in the IT indsutry. Are you keeping pace with upgrading systems, utilizing new tools, and adapting to new trends?

Adobe Flash is Out, Long Live HTML5

Written on November 23, 2011

Adobe is dropping Flash for mobile, and donating Flex SDK to the Apache Software Foundation. With this, HTML5 has won the battle for mobile web.

Social Media, Meet Social Business

Written on November 8, 2011

Don’t mistake social business as “businesses using social media.” Social Business isn’t just social media, using only traditional platforms like Twitter and Facebook. This describes the rise in collaborative software and communication tools being used to allow employees to work together on projects and be more active members in their company and their industry. And in the eyes of many experts, it is the new face of IT.

What Makes a Project Manager?

Written on October 20, 2011

Project management can be a difficult field to master, and with growing expectations from clients and team members it is important to stay on top of what exactly being a project manager calls for.

Microsoft Embraces Apache Hadoop

Written on October 18, 2011

Yesterday Ted Kummert gave a PASS Summit 2011 keynote address,announcing that Microsoft will be utilizing Hadoop-based distributions for both Windows Server and Windows Azure.

Cloudy with a Chance of Blogs

Written on September 27, 2011

The IT industry is headed towards clout usage on a large scale, and the technology continues to grow in use every day. An excellent side effect to this how quickly many excellent blogs and resources have developed in just the past few years. There is a great wealth of expertise and information being shared, and a great IT community has grown around it.