When it comes to finding qualified talent to fill key roles, many IT leaders these days are coming up short. Ninety-six percent of US-based IT and business executives in a recent CompTIA survey said too many workers lack advanced IT skills, with nearly 9 in 10 believing that neither K-12 schools nor colleges are sufficiently…
When layoffs become necessary due to poor market conditions, increased competition, overly optimistic planning or any other reason, it’s often left to IT leaders to make the tough decisions and to deliver the bad news to the team. Yet before deciding whom to let go, who needs to stay and how to minimize the impact…
On the first of October, CIO Lisa Davis welcomed 13 new IT hires, some of them fresh out of college, to their first day of work at Blue Shield of California. The new arrivals peppered her with questions ranging from whether the company issued acronym dictionaries to decipher all of its abbreviations, to tips on…
Business expansion plans often pose IT leaders a thorny question: Can the software at the heart of the enterprise support our business ambitions? For Sweetwater Sound, an online retailer of musical instruments and audio equipment, this crossroads came in the wake of an October 2018 decision to build a new distribution center — nearly four…
Getting promoted to a high-level position in IT is a long game. But it’s not one that’s won by being patiently excellent and waiting for people to take notice. Like any undertaking that requires the participation of busy colleagues, this will take preparation, persuasion, and a plan. But before you pull out the org map…
For years many of us have been hearing a constant whinge, really, that the Australian technology sector isn’t getting the love it needs, whether from government bean counters, or local investors, to realise its true potential. But over the past few years we’ve seen a handful of local companies defy expectations and ascend to the…
As the coronavirus spread across the United States, leaders at software vendor Elastic became concerned about potential burnout of its employees. To mitigate issues that could impact the mental health of its staff, the company sped up its implementation of Ginger, a software platform that enables employees to quickly connect with a behavioral health coach…
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Lance Berberian has an impressive track record as a healthcare and life sciences CIO. He served in the role at IDEXX and Quest Diagnostics for many years before joining LabCorp in 2014. With the company hard at work on COVID testing and vaccine development, Berberian found the time to talk about IT’s role at LabCorp…
The pressure on CIOs to deliver digital experiences and transformation has accelerated during the pandemic, as maturing digital capabilities will be critical for enterprise success moving forward. Customers agree: 84 percent of customers polled for the recent State of the Connected Customer survey from Salesforce said the way they experience an organization is as important…