Leadership lessons from Accenture’s CIO

Penelope Prett joined Accenture in 1992 and became CIO in 2019. Along the way, she has developed keen insight into how to deliver IT value to a $43.2 billion global company with 500,000 employees, who are responsible for delivering IT value to their clients. I spoke with Prett about her approach to leadership, the most…

5 costly mistakes in infrastructure outsourcing

Outsourcing your infrastructure to a managed service provider (MSP) has its benefits.  Lower support costs, variable resource unit costs, and reduced cycle times for provisioning project resources are among the benefits most valued by companies who make the shift. But outsourcing infrastructure also comes with the risk that an MSP will give you exactly what…

Edge computing’s epic turf war

IT and OT (operational technology) have always occupied two separate worlds. OT concerns itself with the vertical, proprietary systems core to an organization — in manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and so on — and the specialized knowledge required to run them. Over the years OT has tended to resist efforts to open up those systems and…

13 IT skills paying the highest premiums today

As IT jobs grow increasingly complex, there’s more ambiguity surrounding how job titles are defined by any given company and how employers can compensate candidates in the same role with varying skillsets. Pay premiums help employers track the value of specific skills, so they know how competitive the market is for candidates with those skills…

Towards smarter security

What is your number one priority? Imagine if the CIO’s job could be described with that kind of clarity. Well, as a matter of fact, it can be. Corporate boards and the c-suite may not spend too much time thinking about information systems (unless they are an information systems company) but one thing they definitely…