7 proven success strategies for retaining top IT talentWhile the risk of skilled employees leaving for better opportunities is always present, investing in the well-being and development of IT staff can help to foster a positive work environment, build loyalty, and reduce the risk of employees leaving. To address the challenge of retaining talented IT staff, we have identified seven key strategies. Read more
7 proven ways to boost IT staff creativityIT can be a major source of profitable innovations for the company. This puts IT employees in a unique position to identify opportunities to improve or even revolutionize the business. Encouraging creativity and proactivity among IT team members in identifying and defining technology opportunities geared towards improving the business is therefore most likely a very good investment. Read more
Just throwing money at the time-to-market problem will not solve itBecause of the risk of creating bureaucracy, adding more resources to the development process can actually be counterproductive. More people require more coordination which creates the need for more management levels. This in turn leads to more meetings, more politics and less productive time which, in the end, results in even slower development. Read more
The forgotten opportunity to improve return on your IT investmentsGetting your users to actually use your new systems and applications in an efficient way is thus the most important action you can take to get the most value from your new IT investments. Our research shows that the main reasons users don’t use all the new features of a new or upgraded system is that they don’t know how to use them, don’t know how to use them efficiently or simply don’t even know they exist. Read more
How business leaders sabotage IT and what to do about itThe IT function’s ability to provide the services that the business needs to succeed is limited by the resources at its disposal. Business leaders have to create conditions that will enable the IT function to ensure enough and the right type of resources are available to support the business plans. They also need to understand the impact of limited resources on what is possible for the IT function to deliver in a certain time-frame. Read more