Don Tennant

8 Important People to Connect with During a Major IT Incident I’m sure we can all agree that when an IT organization experiences a system disruption or outage, the sooner the right people know about it, the sooner the issue will be resolved, and the better the outcome for the business. So what does the […]

Five Trends Shaping the Future of IT Artificial intelligence is having an increasingly meaningful impact on society in general, and business in particular, market research by Deloitte LLP has found. It appears that a field of study that has long been seen as holding amazing potential is finally beginning to witness a substantive realization of […]

2016 Most In-Demand IT Positions Last week, I wrote about viewing autism as an IT asset. The post stemmed from a discussion I’d had with Dr. Ellis Crasnow, director of STEM3 Academy, a school in Valley Glen, Calif., for high-functioning students who are on the autism spectrum, or who have other social and learning differences. As […]

Latest Cybersecurity Crisis: Where’s the Talent? It seems to me the C-suite is getting awfully crowded. I’ve recently written about the emergence of the chief innovation officer and the chief customer officer, and there are any number of other new C-level positions cropping up, from chief sustainability officer and chief cloud officer, to chief social […]

Getting Ahead of Your Organization’s IT Skills Gap Chances are, someone you know in the IT profession—a friend, a relative, a colleague, or even yourself—falls somewhere on the autism spectrum. We don’t seem to talk about it all that much, but the connection between autism and IT is a simple fact of life that likely […]

The Five Warning Signs Your Cloud Has Been Breached As companies increasingly rely on the public cloud as a mainstay of their IT infrastructures, it’s essential not to lose sight of the realities surrounding public cloud adoption. A great deal of work must be done before organizations will have the clarity they need around efficiently […]

5 Ways to Improve GRC and Minimize Risks Unless you’re on a board of directors or in a C-suite, you probably never thought about it, but the communication and collaboration needs of individuals in that rarefied air are different from those of the folks in the trenches. Similarly, you likely never thought about there being […]

2016 Most In-Demand IT Positions Last month, I wrote a post about Cambia Health Solutions, a nonprofit health insurance provider in Portland, Ore., and how it had turned to crowdsourcing to spark innovation. As I noted in that post, the person who ignited that spark was Mohan Nair, a Cambia senior vice president who had […]

CIOs: How to Get Your Teams to the Next Level Security should not take a backseat to any other consideration in developing technology. But it can “kill innovation before it happens” if we allow ourselves to be consumed by it. That was one of the key messages conveyed in a recent interview with Wolfram Jost, […]

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals When conflict arises in your IT organization, chances are your first inclination is either to avoid dealing with it entirely, or to deal with it by nipping it in the bud. After all, nothing good can come of it, right? Wrong, say management and […]

2016 Most In-Demand IT Positions According to a C-level executive at Software AG, the German enterprise software giant, selling software is not the reason for the company’s existence. If that sounds a little counter-intuitive to you, you’re probably not alone. But when you think about it, selling software is probably not the ultimate reason that […]

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals I recently had the opportunity to interview a highly successful female tech CEO and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who was born and raised in China, and who is fond of quoting Gen. George S. Patton. I’m not making that up. That unicorn really does exist. […]