Our community of CIOs and IT executives have shared so much wisdom on our site in 2014. We went back to see which were most popular with readers. These are the articles that received the most page views in 2014.
1. Finding and retaining talent in a tight it job market
Red Hat CIO Lee Congdon writes: Whether you’re searching for IT staff at Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or a new startup, today’s job market has made it a tough challenge to find, hire and retain good people. Once your new employee is on the job, you have to provide onboarding, initial training, and a clear sense of their job responsibilities. Read the full article.
2. Six creative ways to retain IT talent
It’s no longer enough to offer a great position and salary package to talented IT professionals. In today's job market, employers must do much more to keep top IT talent. Otherwise, they risk seeing their brightest technology employees be recruited away. The Enterprisers Project asked six top IT executives what creative steps they're taking to retain technology talent. Read the full article.
3. How do CIOs deal with agile and DevOps
In this interview, Aaron Stibel, executive vice president of technology, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, says: “(The shift from traditional waterfall software development to agile) has been shockingly top of mind with many of the CTOs I’ve spoken to recently. I was at a meeting with a company recently and at the end of the day one of the executives said to me, ‘How do you deal with agile?’ I just started laughing because I knew exactly what he meant. The people that come from the old waterfall days are used to a world of, ‘Hey, this is what the rest of the year looks like or this is what the next five years looks like, and this is what it’s going to cost.’” Read the full article.
4. Red Hat CEO on the death of version 2.0
In this video interview, Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst explains how rapid prototyping is becoming the norm for successful IT organizations. Watch the video or read the transcript.
5. Major Overhaul: How the FCC CIO plans to modernize 207 legacy IT systems
When Dr. David A. Bray took the reins as the new CIO of the Federal Communications Commission last year, ... he learned the agency was saddled with 207 different legacy systems. In this interview, Bray shares his plan for updating those systems, including how he’s going to keep up morale during a difficult and risky transition. Read the full article.
6. In IT, beware of fad versus functional
Pearson CTO Sven Gerjets writes: When I see what some companies are doing these days with cloud and big data, I often wonder whether technology has ever been focused on business value in their organizations. I’ve worked primarily in industries where technology had to deliver business value or it was a non-starter. These days it is no longer sufficient to be a technologist that is simply putting bits and bytes together. Read the full article.
7. 2015 technology predictions for CIOs
As we approach 2015, we asked a few Enterpriser IT executives what they see on the near horizon: trends, watch-outs, and best practices that will make their lives better – and more interesting – in the coming months. Read the full article.
8. Seven ways to free up money for IT innovation
When it comes to freeing up money for innovation, CIOs need to be their own strongest budget critic. The Enterprisers Project asked top IT executives to share some of the creative ways they're finding money to spend on new projects. Read the full article.
9. How Vanguard is tackling the new normal for IT
Vanguard CIO John Marcante writes: As IT leaders, we’re all faced with new and enduring realities. Chances are that you can identify with some of the ones we’re facing at Vanguard. Read the full article.
10. Why too much talent is wasted by managers not daring to lose control
Building strong software teams is critical for CIOs and CTOs, says Mendix CTO Johan den Haan. But how do managers create trust within teams and launch them into high-performance mode? In this interview, den Haan shares the approach he takes to empower his teams to do their best work at PaaS provider Mendix. Read the full article.
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