Don Tennant

Perhaps you’re witnessing the phenomenon as we speak. There’s a guy in the IT department who has outstanding technical skills, and his value to the organization is phenomenal. So he’s promoted into a leadership position, and the results are catastrophic. He has absolutely no leadership skills, and his managerial cluelessness is making everybody crazy. Welcome […]

Amid signs that Infosys is increasingly concerned about the ramifications of the U.S. government’s ongoing investigation of alleged widespread fraud related to the illegal use of B-1 visas, and the prospect of additional grand jury subpoenas being issued, Infosys has called in the cavalry in the form of company founder and former chairman  Narayana Murthy. […]

Last week, I wrote about Deltek CIO Deb Fitzgerald and the role she and her IT department played in the development of Kona, a project-oriented social collaboration tool. Now let me fill you in on the rest of the story — the features of the tool and the upcoming release of the business version. To […]

As someone who remembers John McAfee as the guy who pretty much created the antivirus software industry when he founded McAfee Associates in 1987, I find it kind of weird that now, most people who know who he is know him as the eccentric guy who hightailed it out of Belize in December after his […]

Question: What do you get when you combine social networking, project collaboration and a woman’s touch from a high-profile CIO? Answer: Kona. The project-oriented social collaboration tool is the brainchild of Deltek, a Herndon, Va.-based  provider of enterprise software for project-based businesses like government contractors and professional services firms. Kona became publicly available last fall […]

Back on April 25, I was contacted by a PR firm in Boston about an upcoming announcement of a partnership between Infosys and IPsoft that would offer clients a strategic combination of outsourcing and autonomics. I was invited to conduct an interview with Chetan Dube, IPsoft’s CEO, and Chandrashekar Kakal, senior vice president and global […]

In my post on Monday,  “Corporate Turnaround Exec: Raising H-1B Visa Cap Just Makes Economic Sense,” I wrote about global leadership, business and strategy consultant Kathleen Brush’s view that the United States needs to increase the number of foreign workers on H-1B visas in this country. The post, which stemmed from an interview I conducted […]

Questions to Ask Before Implementing a Business Intelligence/Analytics System The next time you’re on the phone with your health insurance provider (in the event that you’re one of the lucky ones who actually has health insurance) and you’re struggling to straighten out some billing mix-up or to find out why they refused to pay for […]

There’s probably no more hotly contested issue in the IT realm than the legitimacy of the H-1B visa program, and the concomitant debate over whether there is a shortage of workers in the United States who have the technology skills that companies need. There are very smart, passionate people on both sides of the debate, […]

Her reputation always preceded her. For 15 years she’d ride into town, head over to the local dysfunctional IT company, fix what was broken, and clean up the mess. Then she’d saddle up and head to the next broken-down mess of an IT company and do the same thing. The companies might have been different, […]

Top 11 Highly Requested IT Skills I hate to sound like the aging baby boomer that I am, but things sure seem to have gotten complicated since the millennial generation started entering the work force. Of course, I recognize that we boomers are a puzzle for the millennials, too. Be that as it may, I […]

Five Tips to Really Negotiate a Higher Salary If you’re a woman in IT, perhaps you’ve noticed how difficult it can be to have your voice heard in a world where men, by virtue not only of their sheer numbers in proportion to women, but of such factors as their self-promotion skills, tend to dominate […]