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How to Be the Global IT Executive
IT managers who can adapt their personal styles to the needs of local cultures and employees are best positioned to succeed in the global arena.
How a New Tech Language Might Transform the Labor Market
Credential issuers are collaborating on a common credentialing language that aims to transform the way students, workers, education institutions, and employers describe and share credentialing information.
10 Leading Female CIOs
While women are still underrepresented in IT, quite a few of the world's largest organizations have female CIOs.
From iPhone to AWS: Keys to Tech Product Success
IT professionals who get involved in new product development can learn from experts speaking at a 2017 product summit.
Showtime for Interop ITX 2018
Stay tuned for InformationWeek's coverage of evolving technology concepts and IT leadership issues and opportunities throughout next week's Interop ITX conference.
Culture, Like Technology, Is Changing at a Breakneck Pace
If you thought your company culture was good or bad or a static thing within the organization, well, guess again.
Protect Your Data Privacy Online: Top Experts Share Personal Stories
Nervous about your privacy online? We've asked data and analytics experts how they protect their own privacy. Here's what they said.
Why IT Professionals Move to Las Vegas
Las Vegas may well become the next high-tech hotbed as more IT talent and related investment flow into the city. On and off The Strip, there are all kinds of opportunities to cash in on digital transformation, from gaming to the maker movement and beyond. You may enjoy life more, too. Here's why.
How Dev and Ops Can Work Together for Continuous Delivery
How can you get to continuous delivery when your Dev team and Ops team seem to be working at cross purposes? Learn how to build a harmonious, collaborative DevOps team instead.
15 Best Places to Work in Technology
These tech firms get the best ratings and reviews from current and former employees.
How New Technologies Can Spell Disaster
IT compensation expert David Foote warns that outdated HR models threaten to destroy companies as they try to implement emerging IT concepts.
Rethinking IT: Why Computer Scientists Should Care about Art, Chemistry and Biology
Career advice for computer scientists and IT professionals: Talk to, listen to, and work with your peers in a multi-disciplinary environment.
Think, Do We Rule Technology, or Does Tech Rule Us?
A nugget in CompTIA's predictions for 2018 raises awareness of a somewhat dark side of technology, and the questions we should be asking ourselves.
Affective Analytics and the Human Emotional Experience
Whether you are happy, grumpy, excited, or sad, a computer wants to know and can initiate affective analytics.
10 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2018
Do you have the skills you'll need to succeed this year, or are you still betting on a COBOL revival?
One Year Wiser: 7 Top Culture Ins and Outs
The transition from the business world of 2017 to that of 2018 features some shifts in culture across organizations.
How to Cope with Stress in Tech
Always a concern, workplace stress has soared to new levels in the tech sector.
CIOs' Evolving Role: Think Revenue and Strategy
It's no longer about just cutting costs. CIOs must figure out ways to monetize tech including data, and where newer systems like blockchain can fit strategically.
5 Traits of Truly Innovative Companies
When most people think about innovation, they think of companies like Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google because those companies appear to have some kind of magic that other organizations lack. If your company wants to make lightning strike repeatedly, consider these points.
Gender-based Preferences HR and Hiring Managers Should Know
It's not surprising that men and women value different things in the workplace, but employers aren't necessarily paying attention to the details. Going into 2018, here are a few things you should know.
Kick the IT-Business, Love-Hate Bond up a Notch
As businesses wrestle with the challenges that come with new technologies and concepts such as transformation it's more important than ever that IT and business leaders work as partners.
To Find IT Talent, Think Differently – and Move Quickly
You might not be able to compete with the behemoths, but there are some things you can do to find great talent. Think about partnering with other companies and how multi-disciplinary teams can help fill gaps.
How to Spin off an IT Startup
Executives who have done it share their experiences and advice on knowing when and how to spin off an IT-based startup.
Changing How We Re-Skill in the Age of Automation
Faced with the rapid pace of technology changes, organizations have to plan for continuous re-skilling of their tech workforces.
Openness – The Key to Rapid Change in the Digital Era
Change is never easy, particularly in an age of constant change. So, consider new ways to implement change and smooth the process.
How to Break into an Analytics Career
Are you ready to take the leap into an analytics career? Here are some keys to getting started.
Burnout Prevention: Do We Need a Corporate Disabled List?
Employee burnout is a growing problem, and in the IT sector -- with its ever-evolving technologies and demands from business leaders -- is no exception.
Top 10 Cities Where Tech Salaries Go Furthest
When you adjust for cost of living, IT workers often earn more money in smaller cities than in major technology hubs.
How to Manage Workplace Conflict with Millennials
Individuals with generational differences can learn to manage conflict effectively, and bring positive results from a conflict-laden environment.
CIOs Pay a Price When Change is in the Air
CIOs are finding their tenures are shrinking, in part because they often are bumped out when their organizations embark on new strategies.
IT Pros and Entrepreneurs: Tap the Smart Home Market
IT pros ready for a change should consider the smart home market to leverage skills such as IT security, networking and development.
15 Highest-Paying Tech Jobs for 2018
Executives, managers, mobile developers and people with the word "architect" in their title are at the top of the IT pay scale.
Tips for Transitioning from the IT Department to CEO Chair
Prevedere CEO Rich Wagner takes a look at the skills that IT leaders share and what they might need to work on to move into a CEO role.
AIM Was a Pioneer in Collaboration
Now 20 years old, AOL Instant Messenger is quietly heading to software's trash heap.
3 Ways Millennials are Shaping Today’s Workplace Tech
Use of technology is a defining characteristic of millennials, so if you don't provide simple and instant application access in the workplace they will find their own alternatives.
12 Artificial Intelligence Terms You Need to Know
Is artificial intelligence the same thing as machine learning? And what is a neural network? This slideshow explains fundamental AI terminology in everyday terms.
California Lawmakers Approve Anti-Offshoring Legislation
California legislators this month approved a bill prohibiting state universities from contracting for services performed by workers outside of the United States that would displace California employees.
I Rebuilt My Professional Network from Scratch; What I Learned
With a career path that has led from a tech role to venture capital investing, Mark Minevich shares advice for other career changers.
Recreate Your Job in the Age of Digital Transformation
Whether you work in the C-suite or in a line role, if you don't want to be left behind, figure out how to evolve so you can help the company meet its digital business objectives.
IT Department Hiring Now at Zero Growth
There may be evidence that the movement to cloud computing and workplace automation is slowing IT hiring.
TrueAbility Aims to Reinvent IT Certifications
In an age of cloud computing and rapidly emerging technologies it's time for new approaches to IT certifications.
Top 10 Challenges IT Faces Heading Into 2018
While IT teams seem to face similar obstacles every year (talent shortages, tight budgets), the technology and methods they use to meet those challenges are rapidly improving and evolving.
4 Tips From a Millennial Leader on Finding Great Talent
Hiring great employees means looking beyond the resume into how they solve problems and address goals, as this millennial executive at Workday explains.
12 DevOps Terms You Need to Know
Before taking that big step into DevOps, here are 12 core DevOps terms you'll want to understand.
Consumers Leave No Doubt: People over Chatbots
People complain that virtual agents are too impersonal and can't handle complex requests.
'We Really Don't Know Clouds At All'
Just how quickly are enterprises moving workloads to the cloud? InformationWeek is searching for the answer.
Alexa for the Enterprise? Not Yet, but It’s Coming
Now that you might be accustomed to using Siri, Alexa, Cortana or Google Assistant in your personal life, consider the potential for voice technology in the enterprise.
Launching a New Office Overseas? Engineer It for Success
Having learned from his experience opening an operation in Norway, Tapad's Jeff Olchovy shares his advice to others planning overseas expansion.
A Hat Doesn’t Make a Captain: 3 Traits of a C-Suite Genius
What makes an executive successful? Consider traits such as risk taking and never relying on the status quo.
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2018 State of the Cloud
Cloud adoption is growing, but how are organizations taking advantage of it? Interop ITX and InformationWeek surveyed technology decision-makers to find out, read this report to discover what they had to say!
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