Don Tennant

The Six Deadly Sins of Project Management Leadership Last week, I wrote about the uptick in multisourcing—outsourcing various facets of a large-scale IT project to multiple service providers—and the importance of building collaboration metrics into those contracts during the negotiation phase. That might have been the easy part. Ensuring that those suppliers work harmoniously together […]

Top 20 Tech Companies: A Shake Up in the Digital Landscape Ok, this is getting a little surreal. Three weeks ago, I wrote about G2 Crowd, an outfit that had undertaken what I thought was the novel approach of using crowdsourcing and data analytics to take on the likes of Gartner and Forrester to become […]

Five Key Principles for Continuous IT Cost Optimization Dealing with IT outsourcers can be difficult under the best of circumstances, like when the scope of the project is relatively small, and only one or two key suppliers are involved. But when you’re thrust into a multisourcing situation where multiple suppliers are contracted to handle various […]

The Six Deadly Sins of Project Management Leadership I hate meetings. I feel like I shouldn’t , but I do. I especially hate breaking out into little groups and discussing things, and then getting back into the big group, and having to go on and on about what all the little groups discussed. I hear […]

Six Tips for Giving Feedback in the Workplace About a year ago, I wrote a post that addressed the question of whether white men could be taught to recognize that they have an advantage in the work place, and to do something about it. The context was a study conducted at Rockwell Automation, a global […]

Five Job Search Do’s And Don’ts Incorporating video into the job recruitment and search process is hardly the breakthrough advance or novel idea that a lot of providers in the space are making it out to be. A new provider entering the space with a launch today has pretty much acknowledged that, but says what […]

A Three-Step Plan for Successful Change Management I had an interesting email exchange last week with William Corcoran, MIS Director at J.C. Taylor, a specialty automobile insurer in Upper Darby, Pa. We were discussing some of the challenges confronting senior IT executives, and we kept coming back to the idea that reducing the scope of […]

In a previous post, I wrote about my interview with Matt Gorniak, COO of G2 Crowd, which I described as a “startup [that] aims to tap the potential of crowdsourcing and data analytics to turn the market research industry upside-down.” I also noted that it’s widely referred to as “the Yelp for business software.” I’ve […]

Earlier this week, I wrote about G2 Crowd, a Chicago-based startup that’s out to disrupt the IT market research industry with a model based on crowdsourcing and data analytics. In addition to explaining the disruptive change in models I wrote about, Matt Gorniak, G2 Grid’s co-founder and chief operating officer, addressed the company’s methodology and […]

Accenture, IBM Global Business Services and Deloitte Consulting are seen as far and away the top IT consulting firms by the consulting industry itself, a new survey has found. The three firms placed No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, respectively, in both IT operations consulting and IT strategy consulting, according to the 2014 Best […]

Five Steps to Improve Marketing Effectiveness with Big Data Traditional IT market research firms like Gartner and IDC are becoming obsolete because of the emergence of disruptive technologies. Because of this, Chicago-based startup G2 Crowd is out to reinvent the way IT professionals make their purchasing decisions. The startup aims to tap the potential of […]

The Culture Secret: Five Steps to Creating Your Own Company Culture Ah, the irony. We have all of these incredibly cool communication tools at our fingertips, and most of us are probably far lousier communicators now than we were before all of these tools came along. If things keep going the way they are, at […]