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CIOs: How to Get Your Teams to the Next Level A lot of IT professionals find themselves in positions they never really envisioned themselves being in: leadership positions. They had always felt fulfilled career-wise by meeting technology challenges, and never really aspired to be leaders of anyone. And yet here they are, with responsibilities involving […]

How Cloud-Based ERP Can Help With Financial Pain Points If you’ve spent any time in the vicinity of Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, you’ve almost certainly noticed that just about every major U.S. software vendor you can name has set up shop there. The idea, of course, is to be close to where the […]

5 Ways Retailers Can Best Leverage Data Analytics I never realized before, but I’ve come to learn that ad blockers cause a lot of hand-wringing. Juniper Research earlier this month put out a report warning that digital publishers stand to lose over $27 billion by 2020, and there’s a lot of chatter about what Google […]

5 Ways to Kick-Start Employee Energy It’s graduation season, which means it’s also job candidate interviewing season for IT professionals. One of the qualities I’m increasingly hearing IT pros say they’re looking for in new hires is an entrepreneurial spirit, because such a spirit is indicative of self-confidence, adaptability, and devotion to an end goal. […]

The 5 Essential Traits of Digital Innovators Last week, I wrote a post about David Rogers, and the notion that digital transformation, rather than being all about technology, is really about strategy and the need for changes in the way organizations think. What Rogers also made clear in a recent interview is that it’s about […]

How to Promote Yourself on the Job What would compel a technology executive at Facebook to leave such a high-profile, prestigious position to join a startup? For Namrata Ganatra, it was the opportunity to help give young people a chance to invest in the stock market — a chance she could only dream about when […]

Best Practices to Improve IT and DevOps Collaboration If you’re a CIO, and your top priority is managing your IT infrastructure, two things are going on. First, you’re almost certainly not having a whole lot of fun. Second, you’re working for an organization that is probably undervaluing you. That was my key takeaway from a […]

Adapting a pre-Internet enterprise to a post-Internet world is known as “digital transformation.” It’s also known to any number of CIOs as their worst nightmare. More than one CIO I’ve spoken with over the years, in response to the standard question about what keeps them up at night, responded without hesitation that keeping the business […]

In my experience, companies that have a disproportionately low number of women in their IT organizations cite one reason more frequently than any other for the lack of gender diversity: There simply aren’t enough women coming through the IT academic pipeline, so the availability simply isn’t there. Suppose you and your colleagues were tasked with […]

5 Defining Tech Trends that Will Shape Business Consider this scenario: Your company is expanding globally, and you’re overseeing the deployment of a global HR software platform. It has some excellent features that have proven to be highly valued by your users in the United States, like one that facilitates the rollout of a 360-degree […]

How to Promote Yourself on the Job Last week, I wrote about Anna Frazzetto and the emergence of the chief digital officer, a role she fills at Harvey Nash, a UK-based tech recruitment and outsourcing services provider. When I spoke with Frazzetto, who has a double major in math and computer science from New York […]

6 Devices Poised to Disrupt Your Network in 2016 Earlier this month, I wrote about John Hornick and his passion about the potential of 3D printing technology. As a huge proponent of the technology, Hornick is fond of articulating the benefits of its disruptive nature. Yet he’s equally quick to point out that inherent in […]