An organization’s culture plays a key role in employee engagement, and team building is among the most effective ways to help employees forge or strengthen bonds with their coworkers. But forget the standard casual Fridays, pub crawls or pizza lunches — team building has evolved into bringing people together for work and play, inside and…
In the world of IT and telecom services, deals occasionally break down. When this happens, the customer-supplier relationship is sorely strained. Working through these challenges while also handling day-to-day vendor management is time consuming, often with negligible performance improvements, which only exacerbates customer dissatisfaction. This article highlights common causes of these failed relationships and discusses…
Recent IDC data shows that 76 percent of companies that are disruptors in their industries plan to replace legacy applications in the next five years, with almost half replacing legacy systems in the next 24 months. Many of them are doing so by moving functionality to the cloud. Take Land O’Lakes, a $13 billion agricultural…
As someone who doesn’t have a technical background, Phil Bertolini, CIO for Oakland County, Mich., knows he needs to surround himself with people who have tech skills — but he believes it’s almost more important to find ones with business-oriented skills. “The other belief I have is that nothing makes a bad business process worse…
Upskilling is critical to digital transformation success. But when it comes to technologies like cloud, data analytics, and artificial intelligence, what’s the best way to ensure your staff is learning the right skills to bring value to your organization? And how do you structure your training program to ensure staff will buy into the value…
We are entering the age of what Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy calls “Software 2.0,” where neural networks write the code and people’s main jobs are defining the tasks, collecting the data, and building the user interfaces. But not all tasks can be tackled by neural networks — at least, not yet — and traditional…
If someone told you could use software to shave labor costs by more than 30,000 hours per year without eliminating employees would you do it? Of course you would. State Auto Financial CIO and Chief Strategy Officer Greg Tacchetti is using robotic process automation (RPA) to reduce the time the insurance company’s staff spends manually…
If one thing’s for certain, mergers and acquisitions bring change—and often not for the better. Despite best intentions, staff often suffer when a company grows through acquisition. A real desire on the part of leadership to merge two organizations into one can result in fractured teams, disenfranchised employees, or, worse, a mass exodus of top talent. To read this article in full, please click here Read More from This Article: How…
Job candidates for the most in-demand IT positions are hard to find and, sometimes, hard for hiring managers and recruiters to describe, as new technologies appear and current ones evolve. A report from CompTIA suggests the most sought-after jobs in IT are currently software positions, IT support specialists and systems engineers, in that order. Close…
An international sporting goods store with designs on conquering the U.S. market is playing a long game that could foreshadow the future of retail commerce. That France-based Decathlon, which operates more than 1,500 stores in 49 countries, launched its first U.S. store in Emeryville, Calif., in April isn’t a big deal on its face. Hungry…