Tracy Mayor
Senior Features Editor
Tracy Mayor is senior features editor at Computerworld.
Premier 100 IT Leader: P.B. Garrett
Working closely with students and faculty, this IT leader uses technology to champion 21st century learning.
Tips for speaking like a business strategist
You know technology cold, you understand the business, and you're ready to step up to a senior IT leadership position, but can you communicate all that to the C-suite? Here's how other CIOs got their voices heard.
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Best Places spotlight: American University promotes worker growth
Fresh challenges and evolving roles keep things lively for IT pros at the No. 96-ranked organization on our 2013 Best Places to Work in IT list.
Best Places spotlight: NRECA focuses on employees' career development
The No. 11-ranked organization on our 2013 Best Places to Work in IT list invests in its workers with on-site training and mentoring programs.
IT to the rescue: Unraveling bureaucracy at the VA, one project at a time
An organizational discipline, now being applied at the Department of Veterans Affairs, aims to create enterprises that can respond dynamically to customer demands because their structure is adapted to fit their mission and goals.
Top-paying industries for IT 2013
When it comes to IT pay, some industries fared much better than others. Find out who the winners and losers were in our 2013 Salary Survey.
How the 2013 Computerworld Salary Survey was conducted
A look at the methodology used to collect data for the 2013 Computerworld Salary Survey.
IT's rising stars: Next-gen leaders transform the enterprise
Ask Armand Rabinowitz about his senior-level IT position at Hyatt Hotels, and here's what you won't hear: any talk of applications, architecture, virtualization or storage. No mention of data centers, networks or the cloud. Not once...
Premier 100 IT Leader: Judith L. Batenburg
When Judith Batenburg started her job at Starz Entertainment six years ago, IT was isolated "by choice," she says. Starz's business is broadcasting -- the company provides premium movies and original programming -- not technology, and...
Premier 100 IT Leader: Nancy Wolk
As CIO of a very large company -- Alcoa employs 61,000 people in 200-plus locations in 31 countries -- Nancy Wolk sees her primary role as advancing technology to drive what she describes as "profitability through innovation."
Women in IT: How deep is the bench?
Superstar women lead IT at some of the biggest global corporations, yet the path to the top isn't clear for the next generation.
Women in IT: How deep is the bench?
Superstar women lead IT at some of the biggest global corporations, yet the path to the top isn't clear for the next generation.
IT skills: Jumping the chasm
The current tech talent gap is just the first sign of a coming revolution in the IT labor market. Here's how to secure your footing now and brace for what's ahead.
How our 2012 Salary Survey was conducted
A look at the methodology used to collect data for the 2012 Computerworld Salary Survey.
Premier 100 IT Leader profile: Carol J. Dow
This IT leader is helping Vanguard expand its international strategy and identify unique ways to implement existing technologies to improve client services.
Premier 100 IT Leader profile: James McCoy
This IT leader put the brakes on an ERP migration to call for more testing, but he addressed the business side's concerns by effectively explaining his decision.
Election fever: 6 mobile apps that can keep you informed
The big game is on -- and by that, we don't mean football, basketball, baseball or Angry Birds. We're talking about the biggest pastime in the U.S.: Watching (and taking part in) the current Republican primaries and the upcoming...
Self-service IT
Sure, today's end users are pretty tech-savvy, but do they have the technical and business chops needed to take full advantage of self-service technologies?