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- Finding and Hiring the Right
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- Wednesday April 9th, 2009
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- Global Catalysts Consulting Service
2. Agenda
- Overview of existing IT consultancy market
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- Imagination is more important than knowledge
4. Objective of Seminar
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- The objective of the seminar is stimulate you in the selection
process for finding and eventually hiring the right Open Source
Company or consultant
5. Who do you call?
- When you need technical supportwho do you call?
- What is your performance criteria?
6. IT Industry Overview 7. IT Overview
- Economic impact of the IT sector
8. IT and Canadian Economy
- Unemployment rate for IT workers is 1.6% compared with 6.1%
national average
- In 2005 contribution of $52 billion to the Canadian GDP
9. IT Overview
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- Industry Canada reported 600,000 Jobs in ICT
10. IT Company Overview
- 80% of companies employ 1-9 employees
- 14.8% of companies employ 10 to 50 employees
- 2.7% of companies employ 50 to 100 employees
- 2.5% employ 100 or more people,
- 120 companies employ over 500 people
- 16% to 20% of ICT workers are self employed
11. IT Market
- Net growth of some 58,000 jobs over the next 3-5 years.
- Shortage of 100,000 skilled workers is expected by 2009; 1
million by 2016
- 2004 through the year 2014, Labor foresees computer support
specialist and systems administrator jobs growing 18 percent to 26
percent:"Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2007-10 Edition").
12. Linux and Open Source
- Linux market growth by 27% to a market of $11.8 Billion
- Mobile market saw growth by 31%, 60% of phone built on
Linux
- Government adoption of Linux
- 15% of business considering Linux Desktop, Vista problems
- Microsoft and Novell cooperation deal
- Dell, IBM, Novell etchave a Linux strategy
13. Canadian Open Source Companies
- ? number of Open Source specialist companies
- ? number of consultants specializing in Open Source
solutions
- Last Canadian study in 2003was done by E-cology
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- http. www.e-ecology.ca/canfloss/report
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- 17 Canadian companies active in FOSS
14. IT Support Issues 15. #1Dubious Technical Help 16.
CBCMarketplace: The Sting
- Modified a computer to simulate a common hardware failure
- 10 technicians from various companies were given a technical
problem
- What do you think happened?
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- http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2007/10/03/geeks/
17. CBC Story
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http://consumerist.com/consumer/videos/sting-op-of-10-different-computer-repair-companies-finds-70-dont-know-what-theyre-doing-306877.php
18. Observations
- IT professionals are unregulated
- Lack of industry flat rate charts
- Accessing personal information
- Lack of consumer/company awareness
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- Backing up of software or any personal files,
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- Erasing ofany private information, such as financial records,
from the hard drive.
19. Results of the CBC Story
- Three out of 10 solved the problem
- Wide range of pricing for parts, labour etc
- Invasion of privacy information
- Search and downloading of selective files
20. # 2 No FOSS ITAssociations 21. Canadian Associations
- Information and Communication Tech Sector Council
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- http://www.ictc-ctic.ca/en/
- Lack of Canadian FOSS business association
- How many people know about CLUE ?
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- Canadian Association for Open Source http://www.linux.ca
22. Open Source Consultant Directory
- In the UKthe trade organization Open Source Consortium has a
membership base of companies focused on Free and Open Source
services
- Listing of members, collaborative effort for joint
proposals
- http://www.opensourceconsortium.org
23. Australia Open Source Market
- Open Source Industry Australia and Linux Australia
- Estimated to have 1500 companies generating $500 Million in
revenue
- http://census .waughpartners.com.au/
24. # 3Too many small companies 25.
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- One of the drawbacks of consultancies is that there are
typically a lot of solo practitioners that can't do the bigger
projects.
- Solution: Co-optCompetion
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- Open Source Consortium in the UK pool smaller consultants under
a project management offering
26. How to Locate Open Source Professionals
- No separate Open Source trade association
- No collaborative similar to the UK, Australia, South Africa and
elsewhere
27. Now you found Open Source companies What next? 28. Survival
Guide:Request
- Demonstrated relevant experience
- History of projects on budget and on schedule
29. Qualifying Questions
- Qualify exactly what kind of technology company you are dealing
with
- Verify that their customer base is similar to your type of
business
- Is the company bonded, insured, trained staff, qualified,
30. Final Thought
- Subscribe to the Open Source Business Review,
- Showcasing Ontario FOSS companies
- http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr
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- Podcast Interviews of FOSS business contact Jason or Glenn
31. Contact Information
- Phone 905-434-6655 or 416-907-0783
- BLOGhttp://www.globalcatalysts.com
- http://ecrimemonitor.wordpress.com