From the course: Creating Your IT Strategy
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Tips to retain top IT talent
- It's easy to lose sight that the most important part of any IT department is people. A company can have the best IT solutions in the world, but if there isn't a strong group of people there to manage it, evolve it, replace it when that's necessary, and continue to generate new technology, it will perform suboptimally, or worse, still fail entirely. Therefore, recruiting, motivating, training and retaining great people ought to be job number one for an IT executive. What makes this more challenging is that the basis for evaluating talent has become more complex. IT leaders, current and potential, need to be evaluated based on the ability to manage and motivate others. You do this by surveying direct reports in addition to superiors. Busy savvy and business acumen has so much value now as derived at the intersection between IT and varies business disciplines such as marketing or operations. Learning agility as the pace of…
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