Don Tennant

If you’re assuming that moving your applications to the cloud is going to make your organization more eco-friendly, don’t be so sure. According to a recently released study, moving your apps from a server room to a cloud data center can significantly enlarge your organization’s carbon footprint. The study, conducted by the Natural Resources Defense […]

Question: What do Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services have in common? Answer: Their skills in and commitment to implementing green technologies put U.S. companies to shame. I was absolutely blown away when I read Newsweek’s Green Rankings of Global Companies for 2012, which was released on Monday, and which ranks the environmental footprints, management […]

Last month, I wrote a post about how essential it is to have some means of detecting deception in your IT organization, especially in view of the fact that your organization holds the keys to the company’s vital information assets. Equally essential is having some means of preventing untrustworthy individuals from gaining access to your […]

Seven Leadership Skills CIOs Need to Drive Results CIOs must have the right leadership skills in place to deliver on today’s heightened expectations. Although I’ve never worked in an IT shop a day in my life, I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past couple of decades hanging out with IT professionals. One […]

The unexpected announcement last week by Infosys that CFO V. Balakrishnan, a 21-year Infosys veteran, will leave the company at the end of this month is fascinating in view of the timing. I can’t help but wonder whether Balakrishnan’s surprising exit has anything to do with demands that the U.S. government is making as part […]

Having spent so much time following Jay Palmer’s whistleblower retaliation case against Infosys, and the U.S. government’s investigation of the company’s alleged violations of this country’s immigration and tax laws, I became aware of and reported a lot of information that led me to conclude that Infosys cannot reasonably be identified as an ethical company. […]

Whether you agree with it or not, there is a body of thought that insists that there is an unhealthy exodus of skilled immigrants from the United States, and that this exodus is harmful to the U.S. economy and to the country’s ability to compete on a very competitive global playing field. There is probably […]

A new study on immigrant entrepreneurship has found that the proportion of immigrant-founded high-tech startups in the United States has stagnated, and that it’s starting to decline. The study, released on Tuesday by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a nonpartisan foundation that supports entrepreneurship and innovation, evaluated the rate of immigrant entrepreneurship from 2006 to […]

Anyone who follows the H-1B visa debate with any degree of regularity would probably agree that the best-known, most vocal advocate of attracting skilled foreign workers to the United States, and keeping them here, is Vivek Wadhwa. What most of those people might find surprising is that Wadhwa is as vehemently opposed to the widespread, […]

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about a book co-authored by a business school professor who argued that the entrenched ways that organizations think are stifling innovation. The problem is that a discussion of “innovation” doesn’t resonate with a lot of IT leaders, because they think of it as nothing more than […]

Did your boss email you over the weekend? If so, did he or she expect you to respond? And if you did respond, do you have a problem with feeling compelled to do so? If your boss does send you work-related emails over the weekend, you can at least take heart in the fact that […]

If you’re looking for a job, no matter how desperate you are in these difficult economic times, it’s essential that you never allow yourself to lie about your background or credentials. That admonition is being stressed by a well-known career advisor who’s making the point by citing the book I co-wrote, “Spy the Lie: Former […]