Janco released its 2009 Mid Year IT Salary Survey
which shows that overall pay has declined for IT Professionals in the past
18 months. Janco also found that demand is down for IT Professionals. The
CEO of Janco, Victor Janulaitis stated, "The current economic climate with its
cost cutting mindsets, business closures, and extensive outsourcing has put such
great pressure on the IT job market that overall pay has been impacted.
Added to that many 'baby-boomers' who had planned on retiring in the next few
years are not leaving the job market and you have more potential employees than
positions available."
Janco has captured IT compensation statistics since
1996 and publishes its IT Salary Survey semiannually. The IT Salary Survey is
based on Janco Associates, Inc. IT Professionals compensation database.
Compensation benchmark hiring and salary ranges are established for each
position surveyed. In analyzing the study data, the upper and lower quartiles
are eliminated to determine benchmark ranges. The benchmark ranges are then used
to assess the alignment of a company's actual compensation to the marketplace
for each job function. A summary of the most recent salary survey can be
downloaded by visiting Janco IT Salary Survey at http://www.e-janco.com/Salary.htm.
In
preliminary results for the Janco
2009 Mid Year Salary Survey, Janco has found that fringe benefits like
insurance, 401Ks, flexible hours, bonuses and stock options are being reduced by
enterprises as they struggle to contain costs.Janco has tracked this trend for several
quarters.The CEO of Janco, Victor
Janulaitis said, "Over the first two quarters there has been a noticeable
reduction in costs associated with employees.Companies of all sizes freezing
salaries, laying-off staff, making employees pay a larger portion of their
insurance cost, decreasing bonuses, and cutting other benefits."
06/04/2009
Change Management Issue for Measuring IT Success
(HP)
A significant number of service disruptions are due to poor change processes
including flawed impact assessment. The cost to the business of these self
inflicted wounds is high. Poorly managed change results in
many negative outcomes including:
poor quality of service
dissatisfied business customers
unnecessary rework
missed deadlines
higher operating costs
poor employee morale and infighting
downtime of business critical
services
It is no surprise to anyone associated with IT
management that along with the increase in the rate and complexity of change has
come a corresponding increase in the interest associated with using a best
practice approach to change management. ITIL v3 says that changes should be
managed to:
Optimize risk exposure (supporting the risk
profile required by the business)
Minimize the severity of any impact and
disruption
Be successful at the first attempt While
many
firms are investing in change management as a best
practice, doing it well remains difficult. There are many hurdles that must be
overcome to implement a change management process that not only follows a best
practice approach but also yields outstanding results. The challenge becomes
obvious when you consider that many changes within a large enterprise span
multiple geographies, involve multiple teams and organizational units and
include infrastructure elements that cross multiple domains—network, servers,
storage, and applications.
The keys to
sound security are often considered deployment of a sensible security risk
analysis approach, compliance with a recognized standard such as ISO17799 or
ISO27000 or BS7799, development of comprehensive information security
policies and deployment of a detailed security audit
program.
But
where to start? The answer is easy - Janco Security Policies and
Procedures Template and the Janco Audit Security
Program.Risk analysis is often
presented in a confusing and over-complicated manner, ISO 17799 or ISO27000 or
BS7799 compliance can seem a daunting task, security policies can be totally
ignored in practice, and security audit is sometimes less effective than it
should be due to over-stretching of busy audit professionals.
Whether
you need a security risk analysis method/product, guidance on how to achieve
compliance with ISO 17799, ISO27000, BS7799 or your own IT security policies, or
whether you simply wish to increase the productivity of your security audit
team, the resources at Janco should help.
The
IT Security Manual Template
provides all the essential sections of a complete security manual and walks
you through the creation of each step. Detailed language addressing more than a
dozen security topics is included in a 220 plus page Microsoft Word document,
which you can modify as much or as little as you need to fit your business
requirements.
The SOX kit contains all of the tools that are need to comply with the
Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. This tool kit has been used successfully by
over 500 publicly traded companies.
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requires that:
Enterprises have an enterprise wide security
policy;
Enterprises have enterprise wide
classification of data for security, risk, and business impact;
Enterprises have security related standards
and procedures;
Enterprises have formal security based
documentation, auditing, and testing in place;
Enterprise enforce separation of duties; and
Enterprises have policies and procedures in
place for Change Management, Help Desk, Service Requests, and changes to
applications, policies, and procedures.
To meet these needs the Sarbanes Oxley
Kit, which comes in four editions (Standard, Silver, Gold,
and Platinum) contains: