Category: Executive

November 17, 2021

When the pandemic hit, the digital transformation of global businesses that was supposed to occur over five to ten years happened almost immediately, and it also significantly accelerated the transition to a new “Experience Economy” that was already underway. The […]

October 22, 2021

Work-life balance, the loose principle through which you evenly split your time and focus between work and personal activities, benefits individuals and corporations in equal measure. A healthy work-life balance can improve health, productivity, job retention and turnover, and in-turn […]

October 22, 2021

So long as time is limited and leaders must decide how best to use that time, capacity management will remain a cornerstone of organizational efficiency. And for digital and technology leaders in particular, it’s more important now than ever. Nearly […]

October 5, 2021

It’s a challenging time for IT leaders helping build businesses back better, with some of their biggest challenges being finding the workers, skills, and budget to deal with the workload. That, at least, is what IDG Research found in its […]

September 29, 2021

Micromanaging, wasting precious time and energy on tasks that could easily be handled by a department chief or other IT team member, is a common CIO trait, particularly among newcomers to the job who are more accustomed to receiving instructions […]

September 21, 2021

Most roles and responsibilities in the C-suite are fairly distinct and well defined: CFOs are responsible for all financial operations; COOs oversee daily operations; and CEOs manage the entire enterprise, for example. With CIOs and CTOs, however, roles and responsibilities […]

September 16, 2021

Project teams that lack diversity may be hindering not only project outcomes, but overall return on investment (ROI). According to the Project Management Institute (PMI)’s 2020 Pulse of the Profession research, 27% of surveyed companies plan to put diversity and […]

September 14, 2021

Veteran CIOs can remember a time when they had to fight for the board’s attention, eager for a seat at the strategic table. Today, all eyes are on IT as technology has taken center stage in all aspects of corporate […]

August 25, 2021

Principle No. 7 of the Keep the Joint Running Manifesto says that before you can be strategic you have to be competent. IT’s processes and practices are how IT’s work gets done. They’re where competence, or its absence, happens. The […]

August 19, 2021

Workforce productivity analytics is a branch of the broader workforce analytics category. While workforce analytics traditionally refers to solutions that help organizations measure employee data for workforce planning, talent management, performance, and engagement, workforce productivity analytics focuses more specifically on […]