Employee Well-being Permeates Everything We Do in Technology
“Always ensure that what you do encourages the well-being of your organization, customers, and yourself.” Here Daniel Breston recounts some of his well-being experiences throughout his long IT career and offers helpful tips to others.
4 Tips for Improving the User Experience
This article by Kevin Smith looks at four things that can improve the user experience and help deliver the maximum value from the systems of IT across the business and to the people that are the lifeblood of the organization – including setting clear goals, and transparent design and user testing.
Change Management: Creating a “Brutally Efficient” CAB
A successful Change Advisory Board (CAB) is a disciplined one! Looking at attendance, process, and other governance aspects, Jan Vromant suggests a set of rules to follow for success that will enable you to transform your CAB into a BECAB – or “brutally efficient” CAB.
Run IT as a Business – 7 Things You Must Do
Here Doug Tedder discusses seven fundamental things that IT must do to run like a business, including: having a compelling portfolio of services and products and exhibiting financial and business acumen. After all, the business of the future demands a technology partner that acts and runs like a business.
6 Tips for Modernizing IT Management and Delivery
In this article Daniel Card shares a list of common CIO challenges along with advice on how to combat them, providing 6 tips for modernizing IT management and delivery.
What’s “Being Relevant” in IT?
IT isn’t about adding in new technology or automating processes with the latest gadgets and gizmos or buzzword solutions. It’s about facilitating more business value. So how should IT organizations focus on and demonstrate the business value they deliver?
Agile IT Budgeting – Iteratively Creating Customer Value
Is your current budgeting and funding model not meeting your organization needs? Why continue with a broken model? Learn about Agile IT budgeting here.
6 Pressing Reasons Your CIO Needs to Be on the Board
This article explores six reasons why CIOs should have a seat at the top table, including IT-led innovation, cloud economics, and digital transformation.
ITIL Certificate? Yeah, Cause That’ll Solve Everything
“IT professional training is broken.” And one of the reasons we have this situation is our approach to “scoping and evaluating” training. In this article we take a look at why.
It’s “Tough at the Top” for New CIOs – So Try SFIA
How can the Skills Framework for the Information Age help you as CIO to understand what knowledge, skills, and experience you have in your team?