More than ever before, IT executives are occupying a seat in the C-suite. Find out what you can do to bolster your career and the perception of IT in the enterprise.
Internet of Things devices serve a number of useful applications, such as environmental, asset or inventory monitoring/control, security functions, fitness devices and smartwatches. There is an array of IoT functions for both consumer and business purposes, but determining the total cost of ownership and the return on your enterprise investment in a widespread or large-scale ...
No matter where in the world an enterprise operates, politics is going to play a major role in the lives of its employees. Depending on the country and the current political situation, it’s possible for affiliations, candidates and political parties to become a driving passion in your workforce. While an actively engaged workforce taking interest ...
The importance of diversity and inclusion in any given organization cannot be overstated. It establishes a level playing field, brings together people with different backgrounds, perspectives, traditions and ideas and enriches company culture by ensuring fairness and tolerance. This helps build a more effective and collaborative workforce which enables the business to run in a ...
The more flexibility you can create in your technology workforce, the better you’ll be equipped to manage tomorrow, whatever the future brings. Too often, we focus on helping our teams become technical specialists who know volumes about a single technology, but quickly lose sight of how that technology connects with others. This makes their skills ...
The purpose of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to provide guidelines for the appropriate retention and disposal of physical and electronic documents. Specifically, this policy establishes and describes how the company expects its employees to manage company information (whether electronic files, hard copies or other formats) from creation through destruction, according to applicable laws ...
PURPOSE New office launches and site relocations run the range from straightforward to overly complex. For intricate, sophisticated new office deployments and larger site moves, TechRepublic Premium’s Office relocation checklist can help plan, monitor and execute such projects. From the checklist: LIST REQUIRED OF EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES Begin by creating a simple list of required ...
PURPOSE Onboarding and offboarding employees requires careful attention. Otherwise, team members may receive insufficient permissions to perform their jobs or continue to have access long after their employment’s termination. Given the stakes, the problem is even worse when managing IT staff permissions, so it’s imperative that your company adopts a system to ensure consistency. Employees, ...
PURPOSE Whether due to budget cuts or performance, letting staff go is sometimes a necessity. There are many steps and considerations HR managers need to navigate when it comes to employment termination. Enlisting an employee termination checklist, like this one from TechRepublic Premium, can help supervisors, managers and HR put in place best practices and ...
PURPOSE Finding a strong candidate for an open CRM developer position with experience in the right customer relationship management platform for your business will require a comprehensive recruitment process. This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find the right person for the job. From the hiring kit: ...
PURPOSE Following a formal procedure for IT hardware procurements will benefit your organization by streamlining purchasing, implementing checks and balances, establishing standards to optimize your business model and reducing fraud. This list, which complements our IT hardware procurement policy, will walk you through the necessary purchasing tasks and responsibilities to make sure each step of ...