Don Tennant

Leveraging Technology to Enhance Customer Experience If there’s one conversation that invariably creates a lot of hand-wringing among the IT professionals I’ve spoken with in recent years, it’s the one that centers on “shadow IT.” Buying and implementing technology independent of the IT organization—a practice that is probably most widely associated with marketing organizations—raises all […]

Five Steps to Seamlessly Streaming an Event We’ve all attended our share of IT conferences, but how many of us take full advantage of them for networking? For a lot of us, networking doesn’t come all that easy, so wouldn’t it be nice to have some guidance on how to best go about it? Career […]

Seven Tips for Selecting the Right Staffing Firm Here’s an interesting statistic for you from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The job turnover rate in January of this year was a whopping 22 percent, as 30.5 million Americans quit their jobs. As an IT leader, should you care? Yeah, you should. According to a recent […]

Five Point Checklist for Developing Successful Workforce Strategies According to Asif Khan, a technology veteran who can speak from experience, finding success as a startup is all about finding the right people to start it up and keep it going. With a background in health care IT, Khan is CEO of a startup that’s enjoying […]

Data Protection: Five Challenges Facing the Enterprise HR Department Given that a lot of IT professionals have far greater access to confidential company information than most other employees do, it can be especially disconcerting when one of those professionals leaves the company. According to James Pooley, an information security consultant and former Silicon Valley trial […]

Five Trends Shaping the Future of IT Have you noticed that you almost never hear about “green computing” anymore? It was all the rage a few years ago, but now, it seems, the topic draws about as much attention as a Palm Pilot. I don’t pretend to know exactly why that is, but my hunch […]

Survey Says IT Worker Stress Way Down, Pride Up Last month, I wrote a post about time management consultant Edward Brown and his argument that interruptions, far from being the perfectly normal way of life we’ve come to see them to be, are actually a taxing but very avoidable drain on our time. There’s more […]

Survey Says IT Worker Stress Way Down, Pride Up Here’s the conundrum: There is a shortage of IT professionals who have the skills that employers need, and at the same time, there is an abundance of bright, eager people who dream of obtaining those skills and building a career in IT, but who simply lack […]

Moving to the Public Cloud: Six Steps for Success On-premise data integration is inherently more secure than cloud integration, right? Wrong, says Deepak Singh, founder and CTO of Adeptia, a data integration software provider in Chicago. According to Singh, that’s just another cloud integration myth that’s creating confusion as companies weigh the merits of their enterprise […]

The Nine Best Tech Jobs for 2015 Earlier this month, I wrote a post about my interview with Maja Mataric, vice dean for research at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering and a driving force behind  “The Next MacGyver,” a project aimed at attracting young girls to the STEM professions. As I indicated […]

Five Potential Security Concerns Related to Wearables I’m probably not going too far out on a limb by suggesting that the jury’s still out on how much we should care about smartwatches in general, or the Apple Watch in particular. Then again, I really have no idea what I’m talking about. So I thought it […]

Last week, I wrote a post that stemmed from an interview with Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat Software, perhaps the most influential open source software company in the world. In that post, I noted that in his new book, “The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance,” Whitehurst championed a new corporate structure […]