Don Tennant

Six Ways to Decide Between Offshoring and Onshoring for Your Next Project Last week, I wrote about how global software development outsourcing is becoming more practical for SMBs, and how Accelerance, an outsourcing services provider in Redwood City, Calif., is helping to drive that change. Equally worthy of discussion is the changing nature of the […]

How to Effectively Deliver IT Projects in the Digital Age “An incalculable number of upgrade releases occur every year—and yet most are still frantic affairs, full of missteps and hurried decision-making,” says Jim Manias, vice president of sales and marketing at Advanced Systems Concepts, a job scheduling and workload automation product and services provider in […]

5 Steps to Build an Effective Omnichannel Strategy It’s always been something of a conundrum. Plenty of midsize companies would certainly value being able to take advantage of software development resources that have emerged all over the world, but they simply lack the global footprint or resources of the Fortune 500 companies that have created […]

5 Conversations IT Needs to Have with C-Level Peers Organizations are not looking to upgrade older technology simply because it’s outdated. They’ll upgrade their technology if and when the upgrade helps to achieve a specific business objective. According to Paul Lidsky, president and CEO of Datalink, a data center and cloud services provider in Eden […]

How to Promote Yourself on the Job If you’ve been working in or covering the IT profession for longer than you’d care to admit or remember, as I certainly have, you may well be familiar with the classic book, “The Tao of Programming,” a very entertaining spoof on the profession by business writer Geoffrey James. […]

5 Conversations IT Needs to Have with C-Level Peers A self-made millionaire’s story of success in a very male-dominated career field is one that female IT pros might find as applicable to their own situations as any IT career-focused material they come across. That’s despite the reality that she’s a former convict with a 10th […]

How to Mitigate the Risk of Data Loss and Disruption in 2016 One of the story lines that inevitably emerges in the coverage of major snowstorms like the one that hit the East Coast late last month has to do with predictions of a baby boom nine months later. But here’s an interesting factoid for […]

Five Reasons Your Best Applicants Move On You can have a terrific corporate culture, focus on challenging projects, and provide the means for your employees to work with great technology. But if you’re not paying IT pros what they can find elsewhere, don’t expect job candidates to accept your offer, and don’t expect the talent […]

5 Ways to Patch the IT/Marketing Disconnect (and Thrive) Earlier this month, I wrote about pop-up retail stores—temporary brick-and-mortar extensions of online retail sites—and about my recent conversation with Melissa Gonzalez, founder and CEO of Lion’esque Group, a pop-up retail consulting firm in New York. The portion of the conversation I covered in that post […]

The Best Security Advice from Leading Experts The health care sector is an especially attractive target for cyberattacks, and especially vulnerable due to its weakest link: the supply chain. That’s the conclusion I drew following a recent interview with Al Berman, president of Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) International, a non-profit organization in New York that […]

Innovative Advice for Execs Looking to Change Their Industry In order to attract more women into the STEM professions, it’s essential to broaden the STEM conversation to focus more on entrepreneurship and innovation, and to lift the discussion beyond such negative dimensions as glass ceilings and pay disparity. That’s the advice of Nicole McMackin, president […]

5 Ways to Improve Your Email Marketing ROI Chances are, when you think of pop-ups, you think of those online annoyances that you typically try to block. It turns out there are pop-ups in the physical world, too, but rather than being annoying, they’re kind of cool. I’m referring to temporary brick-and-mortar extensions of online […]