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« Main story: Your top concerns

Of growing concern
Below youíll find a complete list of items over which you are more concerned this year than last.

Item Concern Rating March 2002 Concern Rating March 2001 Rating change
Integrating e-commerce apps with legacy network equipment & applications. 5.53 4.54 +0.99
Securing reasonable budgets for projects. 7.98 7.02 +0.96
Ensuring that dept. managers seek your approval for networking-related projects. 7.22 6.53 +0.68
Acquiring and improving upon business skills. 7.51 6.99 +0.52
Implementing quality of service technologies. 6.38 5.92 +0.46
Choosing between high pay and quality of life. 7.32 6.88 +0.44
Costs of salaries/benefits for employees. 6.96 6.59 +0.37
Career development opportunities at your current company. 6.72 6.43 +0.29
Building and maintaining supplier management systems, such as e-marketplaces. 4.43 4.15 +0.28
Having a reasonable number of qualified vendors from which to choose. 5.69 5.43 +0.26
Defining reasonable scopes of work for projects. 6.82 6.59 +0.24
Obtaining a competitive salary and benefits. 7.04 6.84 +0.20
Acquiring skills in new and emerging technologies (QoS, VPNs, etc.). 7.88 7.70 +0.18
Developing applications for mobile devices. 4.14 4.00 +0.14
XML. 4.78 4.68 +0.10
Making sure network is hacker proof. 8.20 8.13 +0.07
Maintaining skills in established technologies, (routing, switching, etc.*). 7.42 7.42 +0.01

*Rounded to the nearest hundredth.
Source: Network World's 2002 Top Concerns survey


Of shrinking concern
Below you’ll find a complete list of items over which you are less concerned this year than last.

Item Concern Rating March 2002 Concern Rating March 2001 Rating change
The opportunity presented by employment with a network vendor. 4.38 5.25 -0.87
The opportunity presented by employment dot-com companies. 3.96 4.75 -0.79
Implementing and managing PKI systems (digital certificates, digital signatures). 4.51 5.16 -0.65
Finding and retaining qualified employees. 7.23 7.72 -0.49
Implementing and managing ASP services. 3.80 4.22 -0.42
Costs of outsourcing/outtasking. 4.87 5.24 -0.38
The career path generally available to you at user companies. 6.02 6.39 -0.37
Finding outsources/outtasking that can handle the tasks you'd like to offload. 4.45 4.76 -0.31
Building remote-access and site-to-site VPNs. 5.59 5.90 -0.31
Managing outsourced contracts, such as Web hosting services. 4.87 5.16 -0.29
Convergence of voice and data. 4.77 5.05 -0.28
Migration from 10/100 Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet. 4.23 4.49 -0.26
Replacement of your networking staff with outsourced services. 4.29 4.50 -0.21
Supporting wireless devices. 5.14 5.35 -0.21
Keeping employees trained. 7.48 7.68 -0.20
Obtaining bonuses and stock options. 5.68 5.83 -0.15
Security of service providers and/or outsourcer's network and systems. 6.12 6.15 -0.03

Source: Network World's 2002 Top Concerns survey


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