Don Tennant

Last spring, I wrote about a conversation I’d had with Deb Fitzgerald, CIO of project collaboration software provider Deltek, about the development of the business version of the company’s Kona social collaboration platform. That version has since been released, and as a means of showcasing its application in a telecommuting environment, Deltek conducted a survey […]

Eight Tips for Building a Better Leadership System What’s the one symptom that is most likely to hamper productivity and the effective functioning of the organization? There’s a strong argument to be made that that symptom is fear. The reason is simple: Fear can make people shut down. And when employees shut down, they’re more […]

Tracing the Evolution of Business Intelligence Through the Rise of Embedded Analytics I have to admit I’m one of those people whose eyes glaze over at the mention of “predictive analytics,” yet make me an offer to hear about “machine learning,” and I’m all over it. After all, the concept of a machine being able […]

Top Five Reasons You Never Hear Back After Applying for a Job If you’re diligently striving to create a diverse workplace by focusing on gender parity and a balanced representation of people from different racial, ethnic, religious and social groups, guess what. You’re languishing in the 1990s, and you’re blind to the fact that your […]

It’s been almost two-and-a-half years since I began covering the remarkable case of Jay Palmer, the Infosys employee from Alabama who summoned the courage to blow the whistle on alleged visa fraud at the Indian IT services provider. Those allegations would prompt grand jury subpoenas and spark a multi-agency investigation of Infosys’s conduct by the […]

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Infosys, alleging that the company has engaged in systematic, company-wide discrimination against Americans and others who are not of South Asian descent. The suit details alleged discriminatory practices stemming from the company’s abuse of the H-1B and B-1 visa programs, and makes extensive reference to alleged illegal and […]

Five Ways IT Can Increase Customer Engagement Back in 2007, I took advantage of an incredibly cool technology platform that enabled me to loan $25 to a woman in Afghanistan named Rohena Faiz Mohammad, who needed $300 to buy beans and peas to sell on the street. It’s difficult for women in Afghan society to […]

Cloud-Hosting Preferences for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software If you’ve ever padded an expense report or used company funds to purchase something for your personal use, you’re not alone. According to the results of a new survey of office workers in the United States, one-third admitted to stealing from their companies in devious ways. The […]

Five Factors that Drive a Wedge Between Work and Social Media I’m here to tell you that after you die, there’s a part of you that will continue to live on. It’s not flesh and blood, it’s not physical and it’s not really tangible. You can’t touch it. You can’t feel it. And yet, you […]

Last week, The Guardian continued its publication of information being leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, by revealing that Microsoft had helped NSA circumvent its encryption to gain access to web chats and other activity of its customers. The revelations beg an interesting question: Could Microsoft have gotten away with being less […]

As dark and damaging as it is, the case of Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency consultant who continues to leak highly classified and extremely sensitive information about NSA’s intelligence-gathering operations, has a silver lining. It serves as a catalyst for corporate Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to ensure they have safeguards in place […]

If the secret to creating a wildly successful tech startup is to build it around something you’re passionate about, Jordan Fliegel is off to a good start. Actually, Fliegel is off to a pretty good start by just about any measure. A 26-year-old native of Cambridge, Mass., with a stint as a professional basketball player […]