I recently spoke at AT Kearney’s Winter CIO Summit in Grindelwald in Switzerland. It’s a wonderful location and the calibre of delegate was high. The event was notable for a number of reasons, not least the night time sledging by the Eiger. For me this was a series of near death experiences followed by a […]
Let’s face it. The IT industry has a brand problem. How can we be the drivers of innovation when users think of IT in terms of late system delivery and the ‘turn it off turn it on’ service ethic (/mantra). So what can you do? Step 1- Rename the department Eg. Information services, innovation centre. […]
Working very closely with the IT recruitment sector over the years I have noticed that there is a strong tendency to focus on competencies when sourcing IT talent. This is in the main driven by the hiring manager of the acquiring organisation. The beauty of competencies-led recruitment is that it can be distilled down into […]