If tech experts take the time to step into the shoes of their non-tech stakeholders, it becomes easier to develop a presentation highlighting the benefits of the solution they’re recommending in terms the audience can understand and embrace. Here, 16 members of the Forbes Technology Council share their experience to help fellow tech professionals better…
Staying At The Top: Three Important Actions Every IT Department Should Take
Consider how end users expect the same convenience they enjoy on their personal devices while legal wants to ensure compliance, and nobody wants to end up as the next data breach headline. It’s a perfect storm for IT departments. As a result, I often see a lack of direction when allocating budgets and time to…
Expert Panel Contribution: 14 Essential Features Of A Successful IT Governance Plan
For an IT governance plan or framework to be effective, it’s essential to plan how and by whom tech resources will be used, how they’ll be managed and monitored, what risk comes with their use, and how leadership will know the system is working as expected. Below, 14 members of the Forbes Technology Council list…
Stay Open To New Ideas: How To Prep IT For Leaner Times
With the economy cooling, many companies have slowed their hiring or are reducing their headcount. The efficient management of budget, resources, and time is replacing dealing with growing pains in many IT departments. That is the goal, but how can companies address those challenges? It turns out that the trifecta of open interfaces, integration, and…
Protecting The Moat: Why User IDs Should Be A Top Concern For Management
Identity and intellectual property theft are rising globally, and many companies are taking new steps to mitigate the problem. With state and criminal actors pushing the issue to new heights, it’s time to move digital identity and access from something the IT department deals with to an urgent topic that belongs on the agenda of…
All Together Now: Why We Need To Create Cooperation, Not Dependencies, In IT
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, his idea was to share documentation across systems and, thus, share knowledge. As the famous dictum goes, information wants to be free, as in openly shared, not necessarily free of charge. Today, the web as we know it has developed into a fantastic tool that lets us…
A Life In Full: Five Tech Areas Where IT In Education Should Take A Step Back
The past decade, and the last two years, have brought many changes to our IT landscape in general and to the IT we use in schools and businesses. To be sure, many of those changes have been for better and improved education. Yet, some are threatening our very fabric of teaching and learning for life….
Five IT Lessons Schools (And Businesses) Have To Learn Quickly
Major universities have long had a dedicated department focusing on services for off-campus students, but that’s not true for primary and secondary schools. Until recently, only a few countries operated remote public schools—think of kids in the Australian outback. They are used to logging in without giving tech a second thought. The pandemic has provided…
Making The Grade: Five Things IT In Schools Can Teach Us
Working with schools and school districts is one of the perks of my job. I’ve seen firsthand that it takes extraordinary individuals who are passionate about teaching to engage and motivate a room full of 30 children. At the same time, the situations often found in classrooms, schools and school districts can teach essential lessons…
Why You Should Approach IT Like Rocket Science: Five Things To Learn From Satellite Companies
It’s getting crowded in the skies. Companies are busy launching small satellites into low-earth orbit on a weekly schedule. SpaceX alone had more than 1,800 birds in low Earth orbit at the end of November 2021, and experts from Euroconsult estimate that nearly 17,000 satellites will be launched over the coming decade. Most of them…