IT Management
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16 traits of a world class chief innovation officer
Your innovation program, and the role of the CINO, is too important to leave to chance. Make sure whoever holds the top innovation job has these essential qualities.
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IT hiring targets the talent of the neurodiverse community
Pioneering companies are strengthening management and hiring strategies to recruit and retain neurodiverse talent — and are reaping unexpected benefits of ND inclusivity in the process.Feature
7 management books every CIO must read
Keeping pace with evolving management concepts and practices is as important as monitoring the latest IT trends. These seven books will ensure that your business management skills keep pace with your IT knowledge.
Movers and Shakers
IT execs join forces, pledging to promote diversity in technology
CIOs committed to creating more career opportunities in IT for underrepresented communities are asking 5,000 of their peers to join an organized effort to drive meaningful change.
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The gender pay gap: An IT issue that must get fixed
A growing understanding of the importance of diverse teams has brought renewed urgency to addressing one of IT’s most persistent problems: gender pay inequity.
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With Viva, Microsoft aims to augment the employee experience
Microsoft wants employees to spend more time in its enterprise applications. Whether users will want to do so remains to be seen.
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How to build (and sustain) high-performing IT teams
With shorter chains of command and by ‘not shooting for perfection,’ CIOs are emerging from the chaos of 2020 with higher-performing technology teams.
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M&T Bank branches out to bridge skills gap
With apprenticeships, boot camps, college courses, and internships, CIO Mike Wisler is ramping up in-house developer staffing as part of a strategy for which diversity is key.
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Women IT leaders reset the CIO-CISO relationship
AvidXchange CIO Angelic Gibson and CISO Christina Quaine are bridging the gap between IT and security by drawing on their experiences as women rising the ranks in IT.
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10 tips for fostering a culture of continuous learning
To create and maintain an adaptable, dynamic organization that thrives in ever-changing conditions, IT leaders must encourage staff to continually acquire new skills and embrace new mindsets.
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Top IT spending priorities for 2021
IT budget priorities reflect the pandemic’s ongoing effects, with IT leaders earmarking more for improving remote work, expanding digital initiatives, and enhancing customer experience.
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CIOs double down on D&I to build stronger businesses
IT leaders are facilitating multi-pronged efforts to hire employees from underrepresented groups, though cultivating belonging remains a difficult — and often unfulfilled — task.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Get good at delivering software
Survival in the digital age requires an emphasis on execution and speed, enabled by a DevOps approach across the business
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How the WIT Mentor-Protégé program empowers women in tech
Women in Technology offers program members access to women mentors in leadership roles to help advance their careers in what remain male-dominated fields.
Building IT Relationships
10 steps to avoid digital transformation failure
Executive sponsors play a key role in the success (or failure) of digital transformations. Taking these essential actions will tip the scales in your favor.
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7 challenges women face in getting ahead in IT
Climbing the career ladder in IT is no easy feat. But for women technologists, the path to the top is that much more difficult, thanks to bias, different standards, and workplace cultures that marginalize them.
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Women in tech statistics: The hard truths of an uphill battle
Despite national conversations about gender diversity in tech, women are still underrepresented, underpaid and often discriminated against in the tech industry, numbers show.
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Hispanic sales chief calls inclusion critical for women in tech
Ivonne Valdes has transformed cloud service sales at Schneider Electric. Here Valdes, a decorated diversity champion, discusses the importance of fostering belonging and inclusion in the workplace.
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7 ways COVID-19 has changed IT forever
Things will never be the same. Here’s a look at what IT will look like as the COVID-19 threat recedes.
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ITSMF: Growing Black IT careers through leadership programs
For Black IT pros, it can be a hard, lonely road to the top. ITSMF is one organization connecting and advancing Black IT pros through programs that offer mentorship, training, and support.
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The H-1B visa: Facts, requirements, processes
The H-1B visa allows US employers to hire foreign professionals to work in the US when qualified Americans cannot be found. Here are the requirements, processes, and latest changes to this program.
Movers and Shakers
Inside Blue Shield of California's IT operating model overhaul
For CIO Lisa Davis, the transformation to a product-focused operating model is key to realizing the health plan provider's digital health vision.Feature
What IT leaders are doing to boost Blacks in tech
Attuned to racial inequities and the benefits of diversity, some IT leaders are overhauling pipelines, rethinking retention, and encouraging Black IT pros to grow their networks and careers.
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7 tips for selling the C-suite on IT investments
Salesmanship is a key skill in getting buy-in for IT spend. Here’s how to rally support for IT projects by crafting sales pitches that put busines benefits — not the technology itself — front and center.
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LGBTQ IT exec: Why inclusion is critical to corporate culture
Mindy Ferguson, a managing vice president at Capital One, discusses the importance of senior leaders fostering a feeling of belonging, which is often missing from diversity and inclusion efforts.
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User acceptance: 5 tips for ensuring digital success
Those most impacted by digital transformations can make or break your success. Here’s how to leverage their insights, address their pain points, and exceed their expectations.
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Tech takes on its racist terminology
MongoDB colleagues Garaudy Etienne and Marcus Eagan are among a growing wave of IT pros leading the difficult work of eradicating racist language such as ‘master/slave’ from tech tools and open-source projects.
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7 traits that separate IT leaders from IT managers
Is your career still rooted in the past? Here's how you can break free and reach new levels of leadership and performance.
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12 IT budget tricks to reduce costs post-COVID
The pandemic has seen more weight thrust on IT’s shoulders, but often not the bump in budget to support it. Here are a dozen tips on trimming costs in response to strategic shifts in the wake of COVID-19.
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Make an impact: 12 tech-focused D&I nonprofits worth donating to
Looking to make a difference? Consider donating to or partnering with any of these 12 nonprofit organizations dedicated to supporting diversity, inclusion and equity in IT.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
Why the ‘experience of things’ lies at the heart of digital transformation
Employee, customer, and ecosystem form the core experience pillars required for transforming your business.
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The future of work: Coming sooner than you think
What will your worklife be like years from now? Today's work-from-home world has given us a glimpse of the future, as these five articles from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World illustrate.
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7 key questions facing the future of work
A global pandemic raised the bar for IT’s capabilities. IT leaders say 2021 will be even more challenging.
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5 tips for retaining diverse hires
Diversifying your workforce goes beyond just setting a hiring strategy. You have to overhaul your culture to ensure new hires feel welcome and can thrive.Feature
How top tech companies are addressing diversity and inclusion
Black Lives Matter protests have spurred many organizations to reassess equity and diversity in their respective industries. Here’s how five tech giants — and one small standout — have responded to calls for improved inclusion in tech.
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10 IT budgeting mistakes to avoid
Cost savings remains a huge area of focus for IT leaders, who have a ways to go before they master the complex task of building a great IT budget.
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7 interview mistakes that cost you key IT hires
A subpar interview process is a chief reason why IT pros turn down job offers. Here’s how your hiring team may be sabotaging its chances of landing top talent in a tight market.
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15 SLA mistakes IT leaders still make
From treating service-level agreements as a one-time exercise to failing to establish escape clauses, IT leaders should avoid these pitfalls when partnering with IT service and cloud partners to drive business value.
Building IT Relationships
5 critical steps to relaunch a transformation initiative
Across all markets, transformation programs that have been on hold for close to a year are being launched or relaunched. Here's how to make sure your transformation stays on the right track and lower your systems integrator spend by 15-20%.
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7 signs it's time to kill an IT investment
Saying good-bye is hard to do. Worse, however, is pouring precious resources into a project that's doomed to failure.
Inclusion, Inc.
Lessons in diversity: How PDX Women in Tech overhauled board recruitment
In less than two years, the board of the Portland, OR-based nonprofit has gone from 80% white and cisgender and no LGBTQ representation, to 80% BIPOC with LGBTQ+ representation. Here's how we did it.
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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2021
Facilitating the future of work and securing a hybrid working environment top the list of tough, pandemic-inflected issues IT leaders must navigate this year.
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Hybrid work model helps VMware navigate the pandemic
The software maker’s hybrid work model enables employees to work almost anywhere, an effort that includes new conference room tech and experiments with meetings conducted in virtual reality.
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What IT leadership looks like in 2021
As IT leaders meet the challenges of the COVID era, only one thing is assured – more change is coming sooner than you think.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
From risk mitigation to business enabler: The role of CISOs in 2021
CISOs faced a number of challenges in 2020, not the least of which was COVID-19 and the mass migration from onsite to remote work. Corporate leadership saw just how vital the security team is to ensuring the company runs, and runs smoothly. In 2021, CISOs and their security teams can expect to continue to show how vital their role is as they tackle the combined challenges of supply chain hacks, ransomware, WFH, the rollout of 5G, and more.
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20 worthwhile conferences for women in tech
If you support diversity and inclusion for women in technology fields, here are 20 conferences you won’t want to miss.
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6 hot IT hiring trends — and 5 going cold
A global pandemic, economic contraction, and calls to end racial inequality have altered the IT hiring landscape. Here’s how companies are adjusting when it comes to IT staffing.
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How (and why) to address systemic racism through community engagements
Extending your diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) strategy beyond the IT department and into the local community can have a positive impact on your organization's DE&I efforts and could play an integral role in eradicating systemic racism in society. Here's how IT leaders can do this effectively.
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5 tips for leading IT remotely
With WFH and hybrid workplace strategies stretching into 2021, IT leaders must settle in to new work habits to ensure success in leading IT from afar.
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What is a data analyst? A key role for data-driven business decisions
Data analysts help organizations understand the current state of the business by interpreting a wide range of data.
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