IT Management

Your CIO's Strategic Wish List For 2022

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:51:59 -0500

As the calendar turns a page to a new year, CIOs are reappraising their strategic priorities to address the impact of social, economic and technological trends on the enterprise and the services performed by their IT organizations. Macro concerns include the Great Resignation's impact on labor shortages, high inflation, and...

Best Places to Work in IT 2019

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 03:00:00 -0400

Ever upward. Those are the words that come to mind when we look over the 2019 list of the 100 Best Places to Work in IT and think about the listings of past years.

At this point...

How collective intelligence can prevent business meltdowns

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 02:00:00 -0400

On April 19, the car rental giant Hertz hit its former digital services partner Accenture with a $32 million lawsuit claiming breach of contract for a failed redesign of its website and mobile apps. Hertz hired the consulting firm in August 2016 to redefine...

Essential traits of business-driven IT leaders

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:00:00 -0400

Marc Lalande found himself dealing with a scenario typical for CIOs: The unauthorized use of an application.

Lalande, CIO and partner at the creative services firm Sid Lee, learned...

Productivity without micromanaging: the gentle art of nagging

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 04:00:00 -0400

Here’s a question many managers struggle with: How do I get my employees to follow instructions without having to keep nagging them?

You may feel like a micromanaging pest, and...

Where do you start when a team is broken?

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 03:00:00 -0400

One of my friends just took over a new team and found… far more of a situation than she was expecting. She faced a choice: commit to the turnaround, or switch to something that seems like a better bet.

Of course...

Stop Managing Employees from the Conference Room: Move to the Front Lines

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Managers today shoulder more responsibility than ever before: Quarterly, weekly, even daily goals. Keeping existing clients satisfied while also bringing new ones on board. Maintaining budgets. And of course...

10 IT certs paying the highest premiums today

sarah_white@idg.com — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 02:00:00 -0400

T certifications can boost your career, but it’s not always easy to tell which certifications hold the most value for your resume. Moreover, the pay associated any given certification can fluctuate based on business interest in the credential and the supply of IT pros who hold it. To help gauge certification values...

Top IT spending priorities for 2019

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:00:00 -0400

The CIO role continues to grow, thanks in large part to digital transformation, with IT executives adding new responsibilities, ranging from data analytics to product development, according to our 2019 State of the CIO. To meet these goals and continue to innovate...

Acquiring the Right Cloud Skills Will Be Major Challenge for IT in 2019

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500

As the rate at which applications are being either built on or shifted into the cloud accelerates, it’s become clear that IT organizations will need to more aggressively either develop new skills internally or recruit IT professionals that already have them. Recruiting that talent, however...

The 13 most in-demand tech jobs for 2019 — and how to hire for them

sarah_white@idg.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:00:00 -0500

As companies scramble to adapt to a tight IT job market, they’re doing whatever they can to attract top tech talent. For some that means getting a head start in filling next year’s most in-demand roles, which range from...

Winter 2019: State of the CIO

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 04:00:00 -0500

Welcome to the Winter 2019 digital issue of CIO featuring our annual State of the CIO research. In these pages...

How To Protect Your Privacy In Windows 10

preston@gralla.com — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:18:00 -0400

There has been some concern that Windows 10 gathers too much private information from users. Whether you think Microsoft's operating system crosses the privacy line or just want to make sure you protect as much of your personal life as possible, we're here to help. Here's how to protect your privacy in just a few minutes...

6 Expert Budgeting Tips For IT Leaders

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:47:27 -0400

The IT budget says a lot about its owners: whether executives have a roadmap for the future and whether they're willing to pay for it, whether company leaders value innovation or whether they still see technology as only a behind-the-scenes function. So what then...

20 Ways To Kill Your IT Career (Without Knowing It)

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 06:09:13 -0500

Planning your IT career in a shifting tech landscape can be difficult, especially when your big plans can be wiped like a hard drive. Learning new tech skills and networking are obvious ways to solidify your career. But what about accidental ways that could put your career in a slide...

Skills And Salaries For Today's Top IT Executive Roles

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 06:05:28 -0500

There are countless roles that fall under the umbrella of IT executive management and it seems each year there's a new role to fir a new need. With the rise of data, analytics and software services, businesses are stocking up on IT executives to help manage daily technology operations. Read on to discover the average salary, highest paying cities and the most popular skills for the top IT executive jobs currently on the market, according to data from PayScale...

Tech World Is Shaken By Tech Investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Arrest

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:38:00 -0500

Prominent billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was arrested Saturday night in an anti-corruption probe, Saudi Arabia announced. At least 24 others, including princes, ministers, and former ministers, were also arrested. Alwaleed, the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, is one of the world's richest men with a $16.8 billion fortune, Forbes estimates. As of last year,...

Broadcom Offers To Buy Qualcomm In What Would Be The Largest Tech Deal Ever

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:17:05 -0500

Broadcom has proposed to buy its rival Qualcomm in a semiconductor deal that would be the largest-ever takeover in tech. In a statement Monday,...

Anatomy Of An IT Strategic Plan In The Era Of Digital Disruption

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:13:57 -0500

IT's role in the development and execution of business strategy has grown significantly in the era of digital transformation. But as the rate of business and technology change has accelerated, some...

7 IT Salary And Hiring Trends For 2018

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:07:43 -0500

The good times for tech workers will continue through the next year, according to Robert Half's 2018 Salary Guide, which found that today's tech talent gap will continue to put pressure on businesses in 2018 to the benefit of those they are looking to hire. The report, which surveyed...

7 Hot IT Career Trends - And 7 Going Cold

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:12:43 -0400

There's a major IT skills gap in the country and it's only expected to widen. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, there will be 1 million more computing jobs than applicants by 2020. And while this poses a problem for organizations without a plan to address it...

8 Hot IT Hiring Trends - And 8 Going Cold

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:10:52 -0400

We're seeing a number of shifts this year in hiring as technologies mature, new ones emerge and companies work to cut costs by blending full-time IT staff with contract work. While some see the gig economy as a flexible new way to work, one that appeals to solo entrepreneurs, others see a general consequence of the Great Recession. Either way,...

12 Bad Habits That Slow IT To A Crawl

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 07:40:03 -0400

It's time to face a cold, hard fact: Your IT department is too slow. It's the result of good intentions gone bad, but in business, intentions don't matter. When is IT too slow? Whenever any part of the business has to wait for IT to deliver the goods, that's when. The magic buzz phrase these days may be "time to value," but...

7 Hot IT Outsourcing Trends - And 7 Going Cold

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:49:49 -0400

As IT organizations become more strategic, so too do their partnerships with IT outsourcing providers. Digital transformation, automation, and the data revolution are not just shaking up how IT operates, they are greatly impacting the kind - and quality - of services under contract with IT outsourcing firms. Here is a look at the...

WPP Cyberattack Serves As A Wake-Up Call To Agencies And CMOs Alike

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:55:53 -0400

More than 24 hours after news broke that a ransomware attack had effectively disabled the world's largest advertising company, WPP has yet to fully recover. Several hours ago, the company issued a statement acknowledging that the incident is ongoing. According to multiple WPP employees who spoke to Adweek, staff at various offices left work early yesterday due to an inability to access their networks. And while Macs were unaffected,...

12 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:15:29 -0400

What makes IT organizations fail? Often, it's the adoption of what's described as "industry best practices" by people who ought to know better but don't, probably because they've never had to do the job. From establishing internal customers to instituting charge-backs to insisting on ROI, a lot of this advice looks plausible when...

Special Report: Best Places To Work In IT 2017

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:41:55 -0400

Which employers made the list?...

Former AOL CEO Steve Case Tells CEOs To Prepare For The Tech 3.0 Revolution

Wed, 24 May 2017 07:17:24 -0400

Steve Case, co-founder and former CEO of America Online, has watched the Internet evolve from its earliest days of noisy dial-up access to today's integration with almost every aspect of commerce. Since retiring from the company in 2003, Case has engaged in a number of entrepreneurial endeavors, and also has served as...

How Adobe's CIO Blends IT And Marketing

Thu, 04 May 2017 09:29:27 -0400

Adobe CIO Cynthia Stoddard doesn't think about marketing and IT as separate functions. "We don't have an artificial wall between these organizations," she tells CIO.com. IT and marketing have distinct priorities within the business, but...

How IT Can Foster A Spirit Of 'Intrapreneurship'

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:02:02 -0400

Entrepreneurship is typically associated with startup companies, and the eager, driven and innovative minds that start them. But there's another type of entrepreneurship, and it lives inside established organizations. Intrapreneurs are already employed in your organization -- they're workers with...