Enterprise employees love to share messages, documents, and other information in Slack, whose software has become ground zero for collaboration at many companies. But Slack’s technology team is making it easier for its own business lines to complete more intensive tasks on the platform. Slack, which has evolved from collaboration darling to $27.7 billion acquisition…
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every industry, fundamentally altering the way most organizations conduct daily business — and that includes how they recruit, hire, and retain IT talent. Robert Half Technology surveyed more than 2,800 senior managers in the US to gauge the hiring and salary trends for 2021, as companies continue to contend…
Repeat any word or phrase enough, and it can lose all meaning. For many years, the term “digital transformation” has felt increasingly hollow; mere window dressing for any business initiative involving digitizing existing operations. Then the pandemic hit. Suddenly, we had an obvious definition focused on areas of urgent need, such as remote working and…
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and most companies were forced to work virtually, few executives thought the situation would continue for over a year and might be the new work norm going forward. Today, although many companies have site-essential employees who continue to report to a physical workplace, most have to some extent…
As the world celebrates Earth Day, it’s a good time to acknowledge IT’s important role in helping to fight or address climate change. Here are some examples of how organizations are using IT for projects related to environmental issues. Keeping cities on pace with climate actions Nonprofit C40 Cities connects mayors in 97 cities worldwide…
Chris Manriquez, CIO at California State University, Dominguez Hills, joins Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, which is jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They will talk about hybrid return-to-work challenges, how to resolve the digital divide, the impact of AI in higher ed and more. To read this article…
Of all the metrics you could use to gauge the popularity and success of a language, one surefire indicator is the number of development environments available for it. Python’s rise in popularity over the last several years has brought with it a strong wave of IDE support, with tools aimed at both the general programmer…
Chad TerMaat, senior director of IT at Lincoln, Nebraska-based engineering firm Olsson, counts three factors enabling the success of their IT internship program. First off, he says, you put them to work. “Our interns do actual IT work, and their capabilities drive the type of work we give them,” he explains. “That could be software…
If a management philosophy helps inculcate culture, the IT department at Northwestern Mutual is on a path toward continuous improvement, courtesy of CIO Neal Sample. Since joining the Milwaukee-based company in 2019, Sample has managed his tech team leveraging principles from the “aggregation of marginal gains,” which proposes that making incremental improvements in a number…
PEST analysis definition PEST analysis is used to evaluate external and macro environmental factors that impact your organization, specifically political, economic, social, and technological ones. This four-point analysis method gives your business a framework to identify the most influential factors in your industry, with a focus on entering new business markets and growing within your…