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The 4 most common mistakes to avoid when working with tech contractors and consultants
As more employers turn to contractors and consultants to solve their in-demand tech talent gaps, it’s crucial to learn how to get the most out of this relationship. Here are the most common mistakes to avoid.
Tech People Architecture
10 tech certifications that pay the highest and are still growing in value
While pay for tech certifications has been declining overall, these certs are bucking the trend more than most.
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At SUSE, mentoring helps shape the future for women in tech
Melissa Di Donato’s first priority as CEO of SUSE was to implement a mentoring program to uplift women in their tech careers.
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12 awards that recognize women in tech
These 12 awards recognize hard-working women who promote diversity and inclusion and who inspire other women to grow their careers in tech.
The Business of Data
5 factors that will shape data-driven innovation in 2020
The coming year promises new challenges and opportunities for companies building data-driven services.
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6 tips for an effective IT internship program
A well-run internship program can provide a talent pipeline, help build your brand, and even jumpstart business innovation. Here’s how to ensure your interns are engaged, productive, and singing praise.
Movers and Shakers
RPA and AI help ADP work smarter and faster
CIO Vipul Nagrath discusses how the payroll software company is leveraging technology to improve the customer experience.
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9 pitfalls to scaling innovation from pilot to production
From a lack of a handoff plan to a failure to loop in business users at the right time, innovative projects all too often stall when pushed out into the real world. Here’s how to do it right.
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10 reasons IT leaders fail at innovation
Tech leaders have been given an innovation mandate, but many still struggle to build a robust innovation capability. What’s holding them back?
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7 factors women look for in an IT employer — and how to address them
Trying to improve diversity in your hiring pipeline? Here’s what will make your organization attractive to women and other minorities.
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IT’s new ROI: Return on innovation
CIOs struggle to temper business expectations of 100 percent innovation success with the realities. Here’s how to foster a healthy innovation outlook.
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IT burnout: 7 ways to spot and help overwhelmed staff
When workloads go over the top, employee performance can sink. Identifying and supporting beleaguered staffers can help you boost productivity and stem turnover.
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Sponsorship vs. mentorship: Which is best for your career?
While seemingly similar, mentorship and sponsorship offer distinct differences as workplace support and provide unique benefits for your career.
Talent is King
How to avoid a knee-jerk hiring strategy
If need is driving all of your recruiting decisions, you may be compromising.
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LinkedIn Talent Solutions: 10 tips for hiring your perfect match
Looking for the perfect candidate? LinkedIn Talent Solutions offers powerful tools and services for leveraging real-time data and machine learning to find your match.
Inclusion, Inc.
Ending white dominance in tech starts with white women
When white women fail to see the access and privilege afforded them, the “women in tech” narrative will continue to be characterized by the white woman’s perspective, thus erasing the experience of black women and other women of color.
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What women want in the IT workplace: 6 key factors for hiring and retention
Women are exiting IT in droves, as companies struggle to hire and engage these valuable employees. The first step to change? Listening to what women want.
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Co-innovating with startups: 5 steps for success
Startups can help your organization kick-start innovation. Here’s how CIOs can hone their approach to courting fledgling vendors of emerging technologies while reducing risk.
Founder’s Corner
6 important steps businesses can take to monitor and support mobile workers
Keeping team members connected to tools, resources, and information in a virtual work environment is of course, essential for success, but without the tools and your virtual environment can easily fall apart or become too overwhelming to manage.
The Adaptive CIO
How CIOs stoke the fires for the business engine of innovation
CIOs tell me that they want to do more than align to the business agenda. They want a role in business innovation. But how do they achieve it?
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6 tips for recruiting college IT talent
Don’t fear the FAANG: A targeted recruiting approach focused on establishing relationships and showing candidates their future can help any IT organization succeed on campus.
CIO Executive Council POV
How to prepare tomorrow’s workforce? Focus less on devices and more on digital thinking
Improving a person’s digital literacy can help them work, think and communicate more effectively in a world driven by technology innovation, notes the CIO at Clemson University. And it all starts by re-thinking traditional approaches to education.
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The reverse pitch: Enlisting startups to hone innovation
Aflac, Bayer and Bosch are among a growing number of enterprises leveraging the ‘reverse pitch,’ in which companies pose business challenges they will pay winning startups to solve.
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Hiring STEM OPT employees: What businesses need to know
Everything you need to know about the DHS’s STEM Optional Practical Training program — and what is required to hire and employ STEM OPT student workers.
IT & Tech Hiring Insights
How to attract and retain top female tech professionals
How gender diversity within your workforce impacts your organization’s ability to innovate and drive revenue…and 4 strategies to not only attract but retain top female tech professionals.
Movers and Shakers
How TIAA invests in women in IT
With an innovative group mentoring program and local and global networking events, the financial service company's IT Women’s Council helps women grow into leadership positions.
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Innovative CIOs strike back against digital disruption
CIOs from every industry are looking to outmaneuver startups by taking a page from the disruptor’s playbook to deliver innovative digital products and services.
The Tech Nest
A multi-channel approach to experimentation
Engage your business partners and customers where they are by creating a multi-channel approach to experimentation that positions your organization as a technology leader.
Transforming Engineering
Big business: You, too, can growth hack
Big businesses have a lot of potential to unlock and can be scrappy to great effect if they push traditional approaches aside. The key is to always keep rethinking and continue reinventing.
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IT’s latest survival skill: Embracing risk
In today’s digital business world, IT has to stop playing it safe, as you can’t innovate without taking some risks. Still most IT professionals remain deeply risk-averse.
The Truth Will Out
Is it even possible to overcome built-in AI/ML bias?
As artificial intelligence and machine learning permeate every facet of our lives, machines are coming closer and closer to acquiring human-like language capabilities. Research has uncovered that, without intention, business and moral decisions are being made based on deeply ingrained biases that are obscured within AI/ML learning and language patterns.
Straight Talk from a CIO’s Perspective
How much cybersecurity funding is enough – is it a bottomless pit?
No matter how much you spend on cybersecurity, there’s no guarantee you won’t have a significant incident. How do senior management and the board know what makes sense?
CIO Executive Council POV
As cognitive technologies take hold, preparing your workforce for change is key
Enabling technologies like AI, machine learning and RPA will eliminate jobs and open doors to new opportunities. Here are one IT leader’s tips on what you can do today to prepare people for a new era of human-machine interaction.
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Make way for the new CIO: The chief innovation officer
The chief innovation officer role has increased in visibility, thanks to digital transformations, which often include the two flavors of CIO working in tandem.
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Anatomy of a succession plan: How Rosendin Electric's CIO filled his own shoes
Sam Lamonica is retiring after working a decade as the electrical contractor’s CIO. This is the story of how he groomed his replacement.
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7 ways to foster greater IT creativity
Creativity is the spark that ignites innovation. Creating a team that's eager to apply IT knowledge in new and exciting ways can lead to long-term, enterprise-wide benefits.
Movers and Shakers
How Estée Lauder Companies developed a culture to attract and retain IT talent
Michael W. Smith, CIO of The Estée Lauder Companies, has initiated an impressive array of programs to attract and retain IT talent at the nearly $15 billion global prestige beauty company.
Building IT Relationships
Feeling handcuffed by your current IT vendor? Here’s how to increase your renegotiation leverage
With the average size of renegotiated contracts ranging from $20-40 million and renegotiation frequency increasing, customer negotiating teams can no longer hand the perceived switching cost advantage over to the vendors.
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Redesigning business processes for digital success
CIOs find themselves in a unique position to re-imagine how their organizations operate in this digital age. Here’s how to develop a vision for business process reengineering and deliver.
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Raytheon’s cloud-based test bed takes risk out of innovation
Implementing new technology in the defense industry comes with a lot of considerations. Here’s how Raytheon development a virtual environment for experimentation without risk.
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5 key changes to the H-1B visa program
Changes to the H-1B visa program went into effect April 1, aiming to improve and streamline the application and selection process of foreign national talent.
The Business of Data
5 ways startups are innovating with data
Successful data-driven business models can be built from finding, aggregating and repackaging niche data from unexpected sources.
Founder’s Corner
5G is critical to the competitiveness and future success of America’s small businesses
5G represents an exciting range of new possibilities, but it's also important not to let the hype overwhelm the need for security, privacy and safety.
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Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
Spending time learning the business helped CIO Jim Fowler open eyes to a little-known Nationwide API platform and dive deeper into emerging technology such as virtual reality and AI.
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Playbook for stockpiling AI talent: Buy, borrow, build
Hiring, upskilling, and strategic partnerships are the cornerstones for assembling talent in data science and AI. CIOs would do well to employ all three approaches.
Movers and Shakers
Want to create a customer-centric culture? Meet your customers where they are
Digital evolution is challenging for a company as large as Qurate Retail Group. But CIO Karen Etzkorn is helping it succeed by creating a customer-centric culture and elevating digital experiences.
Level Playing Field
Can parenting affect your child's success in the workforce?
Parenting is difficult enough without taking the blame for your child’s poor choices. How can your decisions affect your child’s success?
The Tech Nest
Delivering results through the magic of experimentation
Achieving the desired results for your innovation practice starts with identifying business-driven opportunities; exploring disruptive technology in ways that are fast, cheap, and delight your audience; and focusing momentum on the scope of work, the location of your innovation practice, and the process for engaging your business partners.
Movers and Shakers
Waste Management dumps legacy processes, drives digital change
By applying three levers of digital transformation, Waste Management is infusing technology into the business model to drive growth.
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