CIO succession planning in the digital age
The tech talent squeeze means CIOs must build deep leadership benches. Here, CIOs and analysts reveal how to groom high potentials for top roles. blacked / Getty Images Hiring and retaining talent is an integral part of a CIO’s job. Equally important is grooming successors, or IT leaders with the tech chops and management skills to keep the business humming in the event the CIO departs. As a matter of sound practice, CIOs groom one or two high potentials who…
How to roll out the right tech for frontline workers
Corporate spending on hardware for non-office workers is on the rise as companies look to boost productivity and reduce errors. With that in mind, Gartner analyst Rob Smith offered advice at this month’s Digital Workplace Summit on how to successfully deploy frontline worker technology. Max-Kegfire / Getty Images LONDON – The benefits of getting digital tools into the hands of frontline workers are becoming clear to more companies – and they’re spending more money to help those workers be successful.…
What is a data analyst? A key role for data-driven business decisions
Data analysts help organizations understand the current state of the business by interpreting a wide range of data. Thinkstock What is a data analyst? Data analysts work with data to help their organizations make better business decisions. Using techniques from a range of disciplines, including computer programming, mathematics, and statistics, data analysts draw conclusions from data to describe, predict, and improve business performance. They form the core of any analytics team and tend to be generalists versed in the methods…
Google Slides cheat sheet
How to use Google Slides to create, collaborate on, and lead business presentations. gorodenkoff / filo / Getty Images / Google This guide familiarizes you with the interface and shows you how to start a new presentation; upload and edit one that you have stored on your PC’s hard drive, such as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation; collaborate with others on a presentation; and, of course, present it. This guide is written with the assumption that you know the basics of…
Delegation IS leadership development
CIOs need to be open to delegation and learn to do it effectively as they themselves grow into more strategic leaders. Rawpixel There is a lot of discussion about CIO leadership in professional and academic circles. One topic that rarely makes headlines is developing the next generation of CIOs. Technical training and the accumulation of acronym-heavy credentials is the norm in IT organizations. This is important given the changing nature of information technology. However, there is no more…
5 unanswered questions about Windows 10 1909
The next version of Windows 10 is due to arrive soon. But for enterprise customers, a number of questions remain about what it will entail and whether it sets the stage for all future fall updates. NiroDesign / Getty Images Since Microsoft gave its Windows 10 update model another violent shake on July 1, Computerworld has tried to parse Microsoft’s meanings and motivations for demoting this fall’s intended feature upgrade — Windows 10 1909 — to little more than a rerun of…
African cloud use grows as CIOs seek flexible pricing, scalability
Infrastructure issues remain, but tech executives see cloud technology as a way to optimize IT costs, speed time to market and grow their businesses. KontekBrothers Working under tight cost constraints, African CIOs are increasingly looking to the cloud as a way to curb capital expenditures and quickly scale up new services. Infrastructure problems are still holding back cloud usage in many African markets, but at this point it’s essentially a given among African senior technology executives that cloud technology is…
13+ things to try first when you upgrade to iOS 13
Here are some of the first improvements you should try once you install iOS 13. The update to Apple’s mobile OS has been released. Apple Just in time for the iPhone 11, Apple today released iOS 13 (with a significant update planned later this month, when iOS 13.1 arrives). You should try these improvements first: Check out Apple Arcade This won’t do anything to boost your productivity, but it just might be fun. Apple surprised everyone…
