How Can CIOs Make Their Talent Pipeline More Diverse?
CIOs that want to build a diverse IT department need to understand that in order to do so, they need to create a diverse pipeline
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Why CIOs Need More Diversity In Their IT Departments
CIOs have always known that having a diverse IT department was a good thing and now the rest of the company is starting to realize the same thing
How CIOs Can Reduce Bias When They Are Hiring
With a little luck, we’ve all gotten the message by now: having a more diverse IT department makes for a better IT department. However, despite the fact that most companies have spent a lot of money trying to teach everyone about the power of diversity, we still don’t seem to have done a very good … Read more
The Cost Of Having Women Drop Out Of IT
CIOs have a problem on their hands: women are leaving the workforce at a rate that is 4 times as fast as men and soon there will be a diversity problem
What Can CIOs Do To Boost Workplace Diversity?
As CIOs, because of the importance of information technology we spend our days surrounded by servers and making decisions about things like firewalls and moving into the cloud. Is workplace diversity something that we really need to trouble ourselves about? It turns out that creating a diverse workforce can be a critical part of any … Read more
What Can CIOs Do In Order To Increase Diversity In The IT Department?
Would it be ok if we took a moment and talked about diversity? Let’s face it, the world of IT and most of our IT departments are not really models of diversity. For some reason, it sure seems like white males (and a lot of Asians) are the ones who seem to populate most of … Read more
How A CIO Can Deal With Religion In The Workplace
Of all of the issues including the importance of information technology that the person with the CIO job has to deal with in the workplace, it’s possible that religion might be the most difficult. The reason for this is simply because there are so many different religions out there. Even within a given religion, there … Read more
Just Exactly How Important Is Diversity In Your IT Department?
I’m not sure if you’ve been following this story in the news, but out in Silicon Valley all of those famous companies that you’ve been hearing about, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. have just gotten done taking a look at their global workforces. What they wanted to discover is just exactly what kind of mix of … Read more
Message From The CIO: Send More Women!
Ok all you CIOs wannabes, guess what one of your first problems is going to be once you assume control of the IT department? No, not that innovation thing. Nor will it be finding new ways to cut costs. Somewhat amazingly considering that we are living in the enlightened 21st Century — you will need … Read more
Women In IT: What’s The Current Score?
How many women work in your IT department? Is your CIO a woman? The answer to the first question is probably “not that many“, and the answer to the second is all too often “no“. We’ve been aware that this is an issue for awhile, how are we doing on addressing it? How Do Women … Read more