It&#39;s Your Future survey results released
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Just days before calling an election, the Klein government has released a survey suggesting most Albertans want surplus cash spent on health and education.
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UK gov survey debunks media hysteria The UK National Centre for Social Research today released the long awaited results of the UK Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007 and, contrary to hysterical media speculation, there has been no significant change in UK gambling habits since the last survey in 1999.â¦
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A state-by-state look at the results, as voters across the country make their presidential choices on Super Tuesday
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An online survey has determined the demographics of the first wave of iPhone purchasers and where they are most likely to live.
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A survey of artists and musicians in the US has revealed that a large majority have embraced the internet and consider it to be a helpful tool to their careers.
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This week the Online Publishers Association (OPA) announced the results of its latest Generational Media Study, designed to provide a detailed view of the 18 to 34 year-old media consumer.
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A new survey by IAG Consulting finds that among two-thirds of companies polled, it is &quot;improbable&quot; that an IT project will be considered an overall success due to inadequately or improperly gathered business requirements.Fifty percent of these companies&#39; projects could be termed &quot;runaways,&quot; marked by at least two of these three factors: Taking more than 180 percent of estimated time to be completed, going over 160 percent of the established budget, and delivering less than 70 percent of the desired capabilities.The other 32 percent of the companies surveyed enjoy a &quot;probable&quot; chance of success for IT project, according to the study, which surveyed more than 100 midsized and Fortune 1000 companies in North America.&quot;The numbers here came back far, far bigger than we ever expected,&quot; said Keith Ellis, vice president of IAG, which is based in the U.S. and Canada. The independent company focuses on business requirements analysis.&quot;One big reason that really stands out for me is that people tend to look at requirements as a document, not as a process. If you do that, you&#39;re going to fail,&quot; Ellis said. &quot;Here&#39;s one of those cases where the means is as or more important as the end.&quot;Good requirements analysis can ensure a project&#39;s scale is minimized, but not at the expense of meeting a business&#39; needs, according to the study. Another hallmark sees changes to requirements occurring infrequently, because the proper level of consensus has already been reached.The study weighed development projects, which cost at least $250,000 and involved &quot;significant new functionality,&quot; as opposed to matters like maintenance or a rollout of new client machines. The projects consisted of either internally developed software or application implementations. Their average scope was $3 million, according to IAG.The damage was worst when non-IT business analysts were in charge of the requirements. Those projects came in at nearly double their budgets and took more than 245 percent of their allotted time, according to IAG.When IT workers managed the requirements analysis, the results were only slightly better, with budget overruns at 163 percent and time at 172 percent.The best results came when business and IT worked together on defining requirements. There, budgets ran an average of 143 percent and time, 159 percent.The study suggested many companies are working on an ad-hoc basis. More than half &quot;did not have professional, trained staff dedicated to the function of getting requirements, and the vast majority view the process of getting requirements to be inefficient,&quot; the report states.Companies should form a &quot;center of excellence&quot; for business-requirements gathering managed by both IT and business employees, the study concluded.IAG conducted the study with the help of analyst Michael O&#39;Neil and Info-Tech Research Group over the past several months, Ellis said.
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By Scheckel, Martha Valiga, Theresa M  RECENT ISSUES of NURSING EDUCATION PERSPECTIVES have reported results of a national survey conducted by the NLN'S Nursing Education Advisory Council (1-3).
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Highlights from preliminary results of exit polling in the Super Tuesday primary states for The Associated Press and television networks:
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See what it found out about us and our 401(k) plans.
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Poll results Bright news for resident Reg ladyboy
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The prospect of finding a job in the area is still strong moving into the first quarter, according to the most recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
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RESTON, Va., Feb. 2  /PRNewswire/ -- comScore Networks, a leader in the measuring the digital age, today released the results of a survey of more than 1,500 Americans' attitudes and opinions related to Super Bowl XLI.
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THE POLL: Quinnipiac University Ohio telephone survey Feb. 25-March 4
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Dan Ackroyd, Eddie Murphy unavailable for comment Government-backed sociologists are aiming to pin economic status, crime and beliefs on our genes in a new Â£15m survey of 100,000 Britons.â¦
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Twenty-three percent of respondents to a ChangeWave Research study said their companies will reduce or halt IT spending in the second quarter of this year, results that underscore recent&#160;concerns about a U.S. recession.ChangeWave, an investment advice firm in Rockville, Maryland, conducted a survey Feb. 11 to Feb. 15, garnering responses from 2,013 people involved with IT spending in their organizations. Most worked for U.S. companies, with 7 percent of respondents coming from Canada, as well as a small number from other nations.Only 15 percent of respondents said spending would increase in the second quarter, a nine-point drop from the company&#39;s previous survey in November. Just 10 percent reported that first-quarter spending has been greater than planned, a fall of seven points compared to the last survey. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said their companies have spent less than planned during the first quarter, a rise of three points.Meanwhile, 43 percent said their companies are giving a &quot;green light&quot; to second-quarter spending, meaning conditions are normal. But that represents a nine-point drop from the last study and the lowest level ChangeWave has seen in more than four years.The results are roughly similar across companies of all sizes, according to ChangeWave&#39;s data.&quot;This is pretty non-ambiguous stuff here,&quot; Paul Carton, director of research for ChangeWave, said of the results. &quot;But it&#39;s not the end of the world, either. ... We&#39;re having a tough quarter right now. Spending is down. That doesn&#39;t mean there aren&#39;t pockets where things are doing OK.&quot;In addition, strong consumer spending could prop up the economy even as corporations tighten their belts, he said. &quot;We find in our world of measuring change, the consumer spending is two-thirds and corporate spending is one-third.&quot;However, a ChangeWave study on consumer spending from January turned up similarly grim results.Also, respondents to the latest survey offered rather lukewarm forecasts for the rest of the year. Only 19 percent said they expected their IT budget to grow in the second half of 2008, and 20 percent predicted it will drop. However, 51 percent said they believe it will remain the same.