• IDG Contributor Network: 3 enterprise tech trends to digitize your operations

    1. Mobile and remote workforces will be necessary to access global talent
    The overall tech industry is already seeing talent gaps, especially when it comes to data scientists and data engineers. These advanced professionals go above and beyond programming, coding, and running analytics software but maintain strategic experience and expertise to evaluate overall business processes and operations, and know how to use the right tools, collate the most relevant data, elevate data for applications a
  • IDG Contributor Network: Driving your employee experience

    Should 2018 be the year of employee experience?
    CIOs had a variety of answers to this question. Some honestly asked if they had missed a new buzz word. Fortunately, this was not the case for all CIOs. CIOs--in the know--suggested that 2018 should be the year that employee experience becomes a real trend. They were glad that the employee experience had emerged as a topic. For some of these CIOs, employee experience was a continuing rather than a new theme. They claimed that IT’s biggest cl
  • IDG Contributor Network: The art of measurement in enterprise and business architecture

    Structuring an enterprise and/or a business architecture model without measuring any of its key elements is a waste of time. It’s critical to any architecture model to have key performance indicators (KPIs) in place – and these strategic and tactical measurements should not be limited to IT. It’s also helpful to understand the sources of KPIs for various industries.The need for useful measurements
    Enterprise and Business Architecture will only contribute in driving IT and busi
  • IDG Contributor Network: Top 10 fastest growing, highest paying tech skills – and no certification required

    My last column reviewed cash pay premiums for tech certifications in the first half of 2018, specifically which ones pay exceptionally well and are still growing in market value. But did you know there are at least 536 tech skills for which employers are willing to pay extra that either don’t have certifications or it just doesn’t matter to employers that invest in them?That’s a lot of skills. And the survey demographics behind them are impressive: 74,644 U.S. and Canadian tec
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  • IDG Contributor Network: Good help is hard to find

    Whoever said, “It’s hard to find good help today,” must have been a CIO. Not that the world of IT has ever been static, but in case you haven’t noticed, things have been moving pretty fast lately, and it’s exacerbating the disparity between the escalating demand for data center personnel and the less than escalating pool of available talent.A 2017 study by TEKsystems reported that 81% of IT leaders said it was difficult to find quality candidates, and almost 50% wi
  • The secret art of poaching top talent

    Building an outstanding tech team starts with hiring well. And in a competitive environment,  sometimes that means hiring away top IT talent from other firms.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

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