Canadian IT Manager

The Value of Networking Through CIPS

Adam Cole (Toronto, Director of Specialty Technology Solutions for McKesson Canada) Recently I talked about the value of networking. Personally I do a lot of professional networking through CIPS (the association of the Canadian IT professional). For CIPS Read More...

Information Reduction

  Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson Canada) To enhance the flavour of a dish one technique frequently used is that of reduction . Reduction is a process of boiling-off the filling but flavourless water. We live Read More...

IT's Bad Reputation

A few weeks ago I received an email from one of our regular guest bloggers, Adam Cole . He came across a highly impassioned debate on IT's bad reputation and how IT departments are often thought of as hindering business progress, rather than enabling Read More...

Future-proofing Your Career

Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson Canada) Are IT professionals doomed to become relics of the past? The author of an Info-Tech Research Group survey posits that "the future of the IT professional no longer lies in acting Read More...

When Poor Usability is Fatal

Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson Canada) I have always been a proponent of "the user interface is the application". (That is, it doesn't matter what is happening behind the scenes, in most cases an application is judged Read More...

[Guest Blogger] Managing Risk

Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson & National Director for CIPS) “All very complex computer programs will, at some time, fail.” I can’t help but gawk as I drive by an accident, similarly I find I have a morbid curiosity Read More...

Top 10 Project Pitfalls You Can Avoid

I have been reading Baseline magazine for three years now and to this day I still look forward to their monthly case studies. These case studies tend to focus in depth on a single problem in a single well recognized business. This level of attention to Read More...

"The Designer IT Guy"

Here is a link to a terrific article I just read in eWeek regarding traits of the ideal IT professional: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2002881,00.asp Spoiler warning: If you don't read the entire article, the CIOs interviewed identified the following Read More...

People - A company's greatest asset

Many factors influence the success of a company, but none so much as its employees. Of the three Ps, People, Product, and Process, which contribute to a successful project or company, it is the caliber and composition of the staff that provides the greatest Read More...

Guest Blogger - Adam Cole

Adam Cole (B.Math, I.S.P., PMP) holds a management position with McKesson Canada , a leader in healthcare products and services with annual revenues of more than $80 billion, McKesson ranks as the 16th largest industrial company in the United States. Read More...

Common Windows Shortcuts

I received the follow post from Adam Cole and thought that it might be interesting from an IT Manager point of view. In reading through the document that Adam provided, I found that there were several shortcuts that didn't know about and certainly made Read More...

Welcome our two newest guest bloggers

I would like to extend a warm welcome to our two newest bloggers here on the Canadian IT Managers blog. Adam Cole , who you have seen here in the past, being interviewed by Stephen, has just provided his first direct post ( http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/archive/2006/02/22/420247.aspx Read More...

Adam Cole - wowed by DotNetNuke

I have just been wowed by DotNetNuke ( http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ ). Our team is completing a web-based EDC ("Electronic Data Capture") application. EDC is used by the pharmaceutical industry to enable doctors to collect clinical trial data directly from Read More...