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Avaya president and CEO Lou D'Ambrosio will step down after six years in the post for medical reasons and will be replaced on an interim basis by Charles Giancarlo, formerly of Cisco Systems.

Short of being handed your walking papers, there are often telltale signs that it's time to look for a new job. You haven't been promoted since the Clinton administration. The most exciting assignments are routinely handed to your peers or underlings. Your desk keeps moving farther and farther from where the action is.

When recruiting a new CIO, companies look mostly outside their own walls due to a lack of confidence in internal IT management, and many CEOs fear that internal candidates lack well-rounded experience, a technology recruiter told about 150 CIOs at the 2004 CIO Symposium in the US last week.

Novell is expected to pink-slip up to one-quarter of its workforce as early as this week in response to the network giant's worsening financial situation.

The ad might read, "In search of the right CTO. Must be compatible with company culture, have a solid background in both technology and business, have good communication skills, and be able to command admiration and respect."

The MBA is the most popular master's degree among IT professionals and is widely considered to be the ideal complement to a technical bachelor's degree for IT managers.

Credentials: B.S., Computer Science