Don Tennant

Innovative Advice for Execs Looking to Change Their Industry Last month I wrote about Monica Eaton-Cardone, founder and CIO of Global Risk Technologies (GRT), a payment services security and mediation firm, and her insights on addressing the gender imbalance in IT. What warrants further attention here is Eaton-Cardone’s approach as a technology company founder and leader—one that highly […]

The Web’s Shadiest Neighborhoods: What You Need to Know As a technology journalist working in Hong Kong throughout the 1990s, I witnessed firsthand the rampant piracy of U.S. software products, an unabashedly open and institutionalized peddling of stolen intellectual property. While that activity might not be quite as brazen now as it was then, AGMA, […]

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals In my previous post, I wrote about Brian Hughes, former president of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association whose wife is also an MIT grad, and whose son Richard was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at the age of 13. Hughes had raised the question of […]

2016 Most In-Demand IT Positions I’ve written quite a bit over the years about Asperger’s Syndrome in the IT community. It’s a topic that I’m convinced warrants frank and open discussion in order to bring about a broader understanding of this high-functioning type of autism, and why it seems to be more common among IT […]

Important Advice on Surviving an Employee Data Breach When your employees spend a lot of time on social media at work, the problem could be a lot more serious than lost productivity. The culture of information sharing that the use of social media has created can also lead to lost trade secrets and the exposure […]

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals Earlier this month, I wrote a post about Silicon Valley tech advisor and investor John Chisholm, who had some unconventional tips for aspiring entrepreneurs. In the interview that led to that post, Chisholm also provided an enlightening look at the issue of sexism in […]

4 Ways IT Can Better Align Itself to Fulfill Business Needs Mergers and acquisitions will continue to surge in 2016, according to the Capital Confidence Barometer report released last week by the multinational professional services firm EY. And the surge will be driven predominantly by what EY is calling “digital disruption,” as the digital “have-nots” […]

How to Promote Yourself on the Job For years, I have been asking corporate executives, IT consultants, authors, pundits, and just about anyone else who has anything to say on the matter: What do we need to do in order to end the gender imbalance that has characterized the IT profession in this country since […]

6 Ways to Win the IT Talent War and Retain Top Performers For a lot of IT professionals, becoming a manager doesn’t appear to have the allure it once did. According to the results of a recent survey, only one-third of IT pros see going into management as having the potential to advance their careers. […]

4 Ways IT Can Better Align Itself to Fulfill Business Needs It’s a perennial dilemma in IT shops everywhere: So much of the IT budget is spent on keeping aging systems running that the wherewithal to invest in new, transformative technologies too often remains frustratingly elusive. So when an opportunity arose to gain some insight […]

6 Ways to Win the IT Talent War and Retain Top Performers If you’re an IT pro, chances are you’re putting in about 10 hours more per week than people in other professions do. If you’re an IT pro in North America, you’re likely spending more time at work compared to your IT colleagues elsewhere. […]

Five CRM Initiatives that Can Help You Build Better Customer Relations In his new book, “Unleash Your Inner Company: Use Passion and Perseverance to Build Your Ideal Business,” famed Silicon Valley tech advisor and investor John Chisholm made one thing very clear: He had no interest in making the book a tribute to conventional wisdom. […]