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Cloud,IOT, Big Data, AI all continue to grow at a pace outstripping the available skills and certainly experience. Where does our focus need to be to ensure we can take best advantage of these new technologies?
The CISO role has never been more important. The firms that fail at appointing a new CISO are those which rush and push an inexperienced techie in a poorly defined role. Positioning the role accurately in relation to the firm’s objectives around security, thinking it as a senior leadership role, and taking the time to find the right leader are the keys to long-term success.
Cloud growth is compounding with it being the underlyer to other growth technologies such as Big Data, IOT (Internet of Things), Mobile and digitisation. With this comes a need for new skills and approaches, do you re-train or employ new? Do you have a choice ?
Over the years I have been asked many times what makes a great technology leader, however, since the roles themselves...
As mentioned by Tom Davenport few years back, Data Scientist is still a hottest job of century. Data scientists are those...
The science around recruitment and ensuring a best fit candidate first time around is becoming ever more important. With pressure on training and development budgets, employers need to know as much as they can about each candidate in order that they find the best person for the role.
What about motivation?
Employers are able to identify skills and experience from the shortlisting process and can gain an understanding of a person’s personality from an interview or profiling tool, but, until recently, the understanding of what motivates and drives an individual to perform at work has largely been left to chance!
