Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
When it comes to adding staff, there’s little margin for error. Few CIOs have the time and budget to devote to a second round of recruiting if an initial hire doesn’t work out so it’s essential to select the right person … now. Of course, achieving this goal often is easier said than done. To…
Business optimism is rising but hiring isn’t following that trend. That’s the takeaway. But, according to The Robert Half Professional Employment Report , 92 percent of executives said they are confident in their firms’ growth prospects in Q3 of 2011. Just under half, some 44 percent, said they are very confident. This compares with 86…
After a long bout of recession blows and outsourcing knockouts, IT pros are longing for a true recovery complete with better jobs, more reasonable workloads, raises, bonuses and employment sweeteners. The good news is that 2011 looks to be the year of the IT comeback and all the goodies that implies. The bad news is…
The role of CIO has morphed faster than Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde — with about the same amount of agony. Not so long ago CIOs were respected misunderstood master geeks who were often software developers and programmers themselves. More recently, they’ve been shackled to securing and supporting a hodge-podge of bring-your-own-tech and often derided…
It being the day after Halloween there’s probably a couple people out today with sick kids that ate too much candy last night. Or, it could be they ate too much candy on purpose just so they could feel lousy and call off sick today. CareerBuilder’s annual survey on absenteeism, the List of the Most…
The familiar refrain “reinvent yourself” has never been more sound for those in search of career advancement today. Fortunately for the CIO, reinvention is a relatively easy thing to do given the innovations IT wields every day. It’s a matter of looking at those technologies differently and seeing them as much as a means to…
The clouds are moving in, a storm front of lightening fast change. Its cresting waves threatening to drown corporate IT jobs in a sea of irrelevance. The CIO stands in the tempest wondering if his role, too, will be washed away. With all things IT inevitably moving to the cloud, how is an earthbound soul…
They stand on a high and precarious perch that is visible to all but dangerous to just one: the CIO. To survive and prosper in this harsh new environment, a CIO must boldly make his mark and daringly place her bets. It is not a position for the fearful, the weak or the bashful techie….
In an age when incredibly fast change is the only constant, it is remarkable that any given CIO stays in position longer than a single CPU refresh cycle. Yet many have successfully remained in place, but not without some serious, and repeated, repositioning. In the beginning, legacy systems offered CIOs a degree of job security;…
You know the riddle that “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” If you apply that thought to your talents and strengths, the question then becomes: If you’re doing great things, but nobody knows about them, do they matter? In other words,…