MIT Sloan Management Review Article on It's Time to Reset the IT Talent Model

Foster an engineering culture of small teams of high performance engineers to maximize productivity.

How do you identify which talent in your technology teams create the most value for your business?

This question plagues IT leaders and gets at the heart of a conundrum many organizations face today in their quest to transform digitally. All CIOs know they have star engineers on their teams who are more motivated, creative, and productive than their peers. But what sets them apart from solid but middling performers? Most organizations have no reliable way of pinpointing these crucial differences in performance. As a result, leaders struggle to retain stars, reward them fairly, and hire others of equal caliber.

About the Author

Peter Jacobs is partner at McKinsey & Company and former CIO of ING Netherlands. Klemens Hjartar leads McKinsey Digital in Europe, where he advises clients the financial, advanced industries, private equity, telecommunications, media, and technology sectors. Eric Lamarre leads McKinsey Digital in North America, where he advises global companies in the financial services, advanced industries, and resource sectors. Lars Vinter is a partner at McKinsey & Company based in Denmark and European co-convener of McKinsey’s Technology Strategy & Management service line.

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