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by Mike Rollings | April 22, 2013 | Comments Off
Last week my report “Field Research Summary: The Changing IT Career” was published on Gartner.com. This report summarizes the findings from our field research project focused on how goals, expectations and trends are affecting IT careers from the practitioner’s point of view. This field research incorporated both a Gartner Research Circle survey and in-depth interviews [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Engagement Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: #gartnercat, Behavior, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | April 3, 2013 | 7 Comments
This morning I read a blog post by Nick Corcodilos “Ask The Headhunter: The Talent Shortage Myth and Why HR Should Get Out of the Hiring Business” and it seems Nick and I have come to a similar conclusion – the talent shortage is self-imposed. My Field Research Summary “The Changing IT Career” is about [...]
Category: Engagement Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: #gartnercat, Behavior, Jobs, Non-technical Skills
by Mike Rollings | March 28, 2013 | Comments Off
A large area of concern for many Gartner clients is “How do I get a large organization to do new things, to collaborate effectively, and to improve overall delivery effectiveness?” This area is a huge focus for our Professional Effectiveness research – it not only applies to architects, but also to our entire constituency of [...]
Category: Applications Contextual Strategist Engagement Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: #gartnercat, Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Catalyst-NA, IT Delivery, Non-technical Skills
by Mike Rollings | March 20, 2013 | 1 Comment
My friend and colleague Jack Santos sent me a link to the NYTimes story “Looking for a lesson in Google’s Perks” by James B. Stewart. Jack knows I am interested in work from home and anything else for that matter related to employee engagement. The article states that “Google doesn’t require employees to work from [...]
Category: Engagement Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Communication, Innovation, Non-technical Skills
by Mike Rollings | February 20, 2013 | 1 Comment
Recently several of us Gartner analysts were discussing the future of digitally enhanced humans. This covers a wide range from drugs that enhance cognition to prosthetics that enhance our physicality. With Lance Armstrong’s public fall from grace it is easy to see how artificial enhancement has infiltrated and tarnished professional sports. But I’m wondering about [...]
Category: Human Behavior Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Cycling, Society
by Mike Rollings | November 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
I saw a story on CBS about Wally Boot who has worked at the Steinway factory for 50 years. He was born on Steinway Street and has learned how to make every part in a Steinway, but what he makes is so much more. At the end of the story, Charlie Rose says “there is [...]
Category: Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Empathy, Non-technical Skills, Value
by Mike Rollings | November 5, 2012 | Comments Off
Last week our “2013 Professional Effectiveness Planning Guide: Coming to Terms With the Nexus of Forces” was published on Gartner.com. It discusses the Nexus of Forces — social, mobile, cloud and information — and the profound implications for IT. The nexus forces combine to provide a platform and impetus for innovation, but many organizations are [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | July 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) research team is fond of gearheads. You know, the technical professionals who get things done within organizations, the ones who find the answers. For the past 5 years the Professional Effectiveness team has been doing gearheads workshops at our Catalyst conference to help technical professionals in different aspects of [...]
Category: Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Catalyst-NA, Empathy, Innovation, IT Delivery, Non-technical Skills
by Mike Rollings | July 16, 2012 | 1 Comment
This morning I was discussing an article from CIO.com by Patrick Thibodeau with my colleague Jack Santos. The article “IT Job Seekers Face Hot Yet Terrible Market” discusses how the IT job market is both hot and not, mentions effects from expectation inflation, and that it depends on location, location, location. The article sites a [...]
Category: Management Uncategorized Tags: Catalyst-NA, Catalyst2012, Jobs, Non-technical Skills
by Mike Rollings | April 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
Lately there has been a lot of buzz about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords. I heard yet another story about this over the weekend. While I don’t feel employers should be asking for social media passwords, this post is more about the irony that employers want social passwords but are not asking [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Economy Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Communication, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Taylorism, Transformation
