Don Tennant

How to Promote Yourself on the Job As cliché as it might be, it’s hard not to think of the Energizer Bunny when you become familiar with the career of Caren Merrick. Her frenetic (in a good way) pace was initially accelerated as cofounder of webMethods, a Web services company that was acquired by Software […]

10 Best Tech Jobs in the U.S. in 2016 The chief digital officer position isn’t all that new, but it’s new enough to me to want to get a better sense of what the role is all about. Hence my recent conversation with Anna Frazzetto. Frazzetto is chief digital technology officer and global IT solutions […]

6 Ways to Win the IT Talent War and Retain Top Performers Men and women tend to have different strengths, leading to gender-specific differences in workplace skills like negotiation and communication, right? Wrong, says Tacy Byham. Byham is CEO of Development Dimensions International (DDI), a global talent management consulting firm based in Bridgeville, Pa., and co-author […]

CES Announces the Most Innovative Tech Products for 2016 John Hornick has been called an “evangelist” and a “popularizer” of 3D printing technology, and he readily refers to himself as an “advocate.” Yet he’s not a techie, nor is he a lobbyist for the 3D printing industry. He’s a lawyer who has immersed himself in […]

It has become a common refrain among tech company founders and CEOs I’ve spoken with over the years: Failing to do an adequate job of vetting the people they have brought on board to help them build their companies has been a handicap that they would love to have avoided. When I interview company founders […]

6 Ways to Win the IT Talent War and Retain Top Performers Last week, I wrote about Jessica Kriegel, senior organization development consultant at Oracle, who argues that generational stereotypes, like the widespread notions we’ve all read about millennials as entitled, tech-savvy, structure-averse job-hoppers, are harmful to workplace fairness and productivity. In my interview with […]

Hot New Security Products Debuting at RSA Conference 2016 Last week, I wrote about how Rightside Group, a domain name services provider in Kirkland, Wash., has secured several dozen new generic top-level domains (TLDs), betting that extensions like .family and .video are the wave of the future. Another dimension of Rightside’s business that warrants attention […]

20 Companies that Raise the Bar on Job Perks We’ve all heard the characterizations of millennials that have been recited ad nauseam by pundits, academics, and even millennials themselves. They have a sense of entitlement, because as kids they received trophies just for participating in soccer. As “digital natives,” they demand the instant gratification of […]

Last week, I wrote about how CodeFights, a coding competition platform provider in San Francisco, is being tapped as a resource to recruit software talent by enabling developers to demonstrate their skills in competitions with prospective employers’ automated bots. An even more intriguing dimension of what CodeFights is doing is the notion that software development […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Anyone who has created a website knows that registering the domain you want can be a very iffy proposition, especially if you want a .com extension. It’s not uncommon to have to go to your third or fourth choice, because the first two are already registered. That problem […]

20 Companies that Raise the Bar on Job Perks Consider this scenario: You’re interested in getting a job as a developer with a high-profile company, but in order to get on the short list, you’re challenged to a coding duel by a bot that was trained by the company’s engineers. Beat it, and your foot’s […]

How to Effectively Deliver IT Projects in the Digital Age If you’re an IT professional who has ever been involved in a sales force transformation project, you might have read the words “sales force transformation” and shuddered. There are so many constituencies to satisfy, facets to consider, and things that can go wrong, that sometimes […]