Don Tennant

Let’s say you’ve made the decision to use a SaaS provider to handle your company’s human resource management functions, with all of your most sensitive employee information, from salary data to performance reviews, in the cloud. Would it bother you if the SaaS provider aggregated that data from your company and its other clients, analyzed […]

Let’s face it: The IT profession doesn’t exactly lend itself to physical fitness. I don’t have any statistics to prove it, but my hunch is that IT pros on average would probably fall on the heavier side of a scale that measures the weight of workers as a whole. Beyond the fact that it’s a […]

If you’re female, and you’re considering a CIO career track, here’s some advice for you: Don’t go there. You’re much better off in marketing, where there are plenty of other women. To put it another way: “Do you want to be the first woman on a pro football team? You may be in a lot […]

Earlier this month I wrote about Grammarly, a company that has tapped the power of the cloud to improve written English, and I noted that in a subsequent post I would share my thoughts on why the effort being undertaken by Grammarly and its CEO, Brad Hoover, is a noble one. This is that post. […]

If you’re female, and you were subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace, what would you do? You’d take some action — confront the harasser, get up and leave, report the incident, something, right? Well, probably not. Chances are you’d remain passive. And if you observed a coworker being passive when subjected to sexual harassment, […]

Is there a more torturous workplace ritual than the annual performance review? As someone who has been on both sides of that table as reviewer and reviewee, I can attest that it’s difficult to decide which role is more painful. So as far as I’m concerned, anyone who has an idea to make it less […]

Today marks the release of The World’s Best Multinational Workplaces List, a ranking of the 25 best global companies to work for in terms of workplace culture. It’s compiled by Great Place to Work Institute, a global research, consulting and training firm headquartered in San Francisco. Take a look at the list, and see if […]

The CIO-Millennial Divide: Struggling to Keep Up with Younger Workers’ Tech Support Expectations For anyone in the millennial generation who is disinclined to take career advice from a middle-aged white guy, perhaps you might consider some guidance from one of your own: If you want to succeed in your chosen career field, especially if you’re […]

My favorite quote from election night came from NBC’s Brian Williams, in reference to a barrage of nonsensical comments being tweeted by Donald Trump. Trump, Williams said, “has driven well past the last exit to relevance.” With apologies to Williams, let me borrow his quote to pose a question: Have CIOs driven well past the […]

What’s more harmful than one country’s shortsighted, misguided, injudicious IT company? How about another country’s shortsighted, misguided, injudicious IT sector? The company I’m referring to is Infosys, the Indian IT services outsourcing giant whose visa and tax-related activities in the United States are the subject of an intense, multi-agency criminal investigation by U.S. government authorities. […]

The city of Kiev in Ukraine is the unlikely birthplace of technology that is enabling people all over the world to express themselves in written English with a level of grammatical sophistication that previously eluded countless writers, native and non-native English speakers alike. Kiev is the home of Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn, the founders […]

Earlier this month, when I wrote the post, “Vivek Wadhwa’s Seven Fixes to the Problems Underlying the Immigrant Exodus,” I was prepared to take some flak for having the nerve to communicate with Wadhwa, and the gall to share some of his views. “So now you are hitching yourself up to Wadhwa’s dirty little bandwagon […]