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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItServiceManagement/~4/c0FXQK-emKs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://itsmspot.blogspot.com/2009/06/itil-v3-highlights-v15-feb-2009.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20798681.post-8687845181805659043</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-20T12:32:00.936-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Outsourcing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Quint</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Contract Management</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sourcing</category><title>Easing Outsourcing With Contract Management</title><atom:summary>Contract management principles play an intermediary between the supplier and the client side. The trend of contract management has been more prevalent in US and Europe than in Asia. Sunil Mehta, of Quint India – a global management consulting firm specialising in IT, shares with Biztech2.0 interesting information about this growing trend.read more digg story</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItServiceManagement/~3/LHmwU9PER-g/easing-outsourcing-with-contract.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Administrator)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItServiceManagement/~4/_6kCekoXLXI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://itsmspot.blogspot.com/2009/02/itils-latest-translations-titles-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20798681.post-2526025373520140283</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-26T20:34:23.096-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ITSM Articles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Survey</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jobs</category><title>IT Jobs Outlook for 2009</title><atom:summary>No matter where you are in this global economy, you have felt the force of what is shaping up to be one of the biggest waves of job loss in in recent years. Jason Hiner, of TechRepublic takes a look at a few of the trends currently affecting the IT job market and outlook for 2009.Here's a brief summary of the good and the bad:IT pro salaries went up in 2008According to a recent survey conducted </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItServiceManagement/~3/YfnLqjzhc7A/it-jobs-outlook-for-2009.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Administrator)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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