IT Leadership

About the Best Places to Work in IT

Find out about Computerworld's Best Places to Work in IT program, including eligibility, survey contents, deadlines, and more.

By Best Places to Work in IT Team

Dec 11, 202410 mins

CareersIT Leadership

Best Places to Work in IT 2025

By Best Places to Work in IT Team

Dec 10, 202424 mins

Diversity and InclusionEmployee ExperienceHiring

Total Quality Logistics: Building a ‘talent destination’ through employee engagement

By Beth Stackpole

Dec 10, 20245 mins

CareersHiringIT Skills

Articles

GenAI compliance is an oxymoron. Ways to make the best of it

How can CIOs tell customers what data is being collected about them and how it is being used if the CIOs themselves don’t know exactly what their genAI tools are doing?

By Evan Schuman

Aug 13, 2024 15 mins

ComplianceGenerative AIRegulation

Download the Digital Workplace Enterprise Spotlight

From our editors: It’s been decades in the making, and it got a no-turning-back boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It” is the digital workplace, the combination of work-anywhere remote access, internet- connected computers and mobile devices, and powerful applications and services that let distributed knowledge workers do ever more for their companies. But for any of that to succeed requires strategic thinking and the right management skills, such as those described here.

By Computerworld and CIO staff

Aug 01, 2024 1 min

Business ServicesProject ManagementRemote Work

Is AI the secret sauce for the four-day workweek?

AI and automation may help enterprises transition to four-day workweeks by promoting asynchronous work, optimizing the exchange of information, and minimizing low-level tasks.

By Eric Frank

Jul 17, 2024 12 mins

Employee ExperienceIT LeadershipIT Management

Boeing and the perils of outsourcing mission-critical work

Never let MBAs driven by the bottom line take over an engineering company building airplanes and spaceships.

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Jul 05, 2024 5 mins

IT LeadershipOutsourcingTechnology Industry

What is a CAIO — and what should they know?

The relatively new position of Chief AI Officer requires someone who can handle a myriad number of overlapping responsibilities, not the least of which is extracting ROI from AI technology.

By Lucas Mearian

Jun 17, 2024 10 mins

Change ManagementData PrivacyGenerative AI

How to set – and achieve – DEI goals in IT

Company-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion goals aren’t enough. IT leaders need to set concrete, measurable DEI goals for their tech workforce — and then meet those goals. Here’s how.

By Linda Rosencrance

May 09, 2024 10 mins

Diversity and InclusionIT LeadershipIT Management

Gen Z workers pick genAI over managers for career advice

Nearly half of Gen Z employees surveyed by an outplacement services firm indicated they'd trust a chatbot like ChatGPT for advice over their manager, who many said don't support their career development.

By Lucas Mearian

Apr 23, 2024 5 mins

CareersIT LeadershipTechnology Industry

Microsoft hires ex-DeepMind co-founder to lead Copilot AI initiatives

Mustafa Suleyman will be executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft AI and report directly to CEO Satya Nadella.

By Sascha Brodsky

Mar 19, 2024 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIMicrosoft

Why are CIOs who anticipate the future rarely allowed to do anything about it?

Wall Street’s obsession with quarterly earnings has made it extraordinarily difficult for most enterprises to spend on long-term investments, or even mid-term investments.

By Evan Schuman

Mar 08, 2024 5 mins

IT DirectorIT LeadershipIT Strategy

How — and why — to upskill your employees

Expanding your workers’ tech skills increases their engagement and performance while boosting the company’s innovation and competitiveness.

By Linda Rosencrance

Feb 06, 2024 9 mins

Employee ExperienceIT LeadershipIT Skills

Q&A: How Thomson Reuters used genAI to enable a citizen developer workforce

Thomson Reuters spent years building an AI platform to cull through massive troves of data and documents for its legal, global trade and compliance clients. But when generative AI came along, the company was forced to up its game.

By Lucas Mearian

Feb 01, 2024 19 mins

Augmented RealityChatbotsGenerative AI

Women, high performers and millennials flee return-to-office policies

Companies that require workers to be in the office for a set number of days each week face losing a significant number of employees who cherish work flexibility, new studies showed.

By Lucas Mearian

Jan 30, 2024 8 mins

CareersIT LeadershipRemote Work