Don Tennant

The 21 Questions You Need to Ask in a Job Interview He could write his own ticket, but not because anything was given to him. He had a relentless work ethic. After excelling at MIT, where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science and electrical engineering, he was recruited by Google, where […]

How to Achieve Creative Collaboration Working Remotely Go to the website of any well-established software company, and you’re likely to get a good idea of what the company does pretty quickly, wouldn’t you agree? I mean, at the very least, you’ll get some sense of what the outfit is into, beyond a general understanding that […]

According to a former executive at Siebel Systems, the once-dominant CRM powerhouse was in severe disarray in the months leading up to its acquisition by Oracle in 2005, as it began to sink under its own bloated weight and a customer-be-damned product development strategy. In a recent interview, Brad Peters, who along with his colleague […]

Big Data: Not Just for Big Business Anymore With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just days away, retailers and consumers are gearing up for the annual shopping frenzy. Behind the scenes, Lisbeth McNabb is gearing up to play digital matchmaker between the two. As a former CFO at Match.com, McNabb knows the digital matchmaking world […]

Don’t you wish somebody would come up with a really effective way to ensure that the reviews you read online are legitimate, and they’re not being posted by the business being reviewed, an unscrupulous competitor, or a random 15-year-old kid with way too much time on his hands? Well, it appears that somebody has. Mindshare […]

Tracing the Evolution of Business Intelligence Through the Rise of Embedded Analytics A post last week in which I raised the question of whether business intelligence is a good ol’ boys’ club caught the attention of Terri White, director of marketing communications at Information Builders, one of the oldest and largest BI companies around. White, […]

Seven Perks Leading Tech Employers Use to Retain Talent I wrote a post a while back in which I raised the question of whether any CIO is worth the livelihoods of 250 families. It was a reference to the compensation paid to Randy Mott, who at the time was the CIO at Hewlett-Packard—the money that […]

Seven Principles of an Agile Enterprise You can have all the knowledge in the world, but if you don’t do anything with it, it’s useless. It’s not what you know, it’s what you do with what you know—and doing it with a sense of urgency—that will enable you to accomplish what sometimes seems unattainable. That […]

Seven Perks Leading Tech Employers Use to Retain Talent Twitter took quite a bit of heat last month, when word spread that all of the members of its top executive team except one are men, and all of its board members are men. So when I was preparing for my recent interview with Brad Peters, […]

Eight Tips for Building a Better Leadership System Edward Snowden, a systems administrator, broke a crucial trust with his public disclosure of sensitive information regarding NSA intelligence gathering. Every day, a number of IT professionals become aware of H-1B visa fraud and abuse at their companies, and don’t report it. The mainstream press has featured […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis If you’re working in one of those companies where the wonks do all the analytics and the idea of delivering insight from those analytics to business users is kind of foreign, you’d do well to spend an afternoon chatting with Brad Peters. His head is in the cloud, […]

In March 2011, a month after Infosys whistleblower Jay Palmer filed a harassment and retaliation lawsuit that exposed alleged rampant visa fraud and abuse on the part of the Indian IT services provider, I wrote my second post about the case. It was titled, “H-1B Visa Fraud Case Against Infosys May Be a Game Changer.” […]