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Organizations operating in our digital age must be able to react, adapt, and evolve in a rapidly changing environment. Many, from small startups to large multinational companies, are embracing a more agile environment to help them address multi-faceted challenges. Scrum is a simple but powerful framework that allows teams to work collaboratively and efficiently on…
Finding the right talent to fill in-demand technology positions is an ongoing challenge for many companies. York Solutions partners with clients to understand their workforce needs – as an organization overall and on specific teams – and match them with top IT and tech talent. With our Managed Service Solution (MS3), we manage the entire…
Today’s high demand for IT and technology talent is outpacing the supply of qualified candidates. This workforce gap is documented across all areas of IT, but it is particularly prominent – and problematic – in cybersecurity. The Cybersecurity Workforce Gap Cybersecurity job openings have grown by 94% since 2013, compared to 30% of IT positions…
Sayeed Reza, VP, Software Engineering at Optum believes that a good understanding of the business and its customers are the first key steps towards becoming a successful IT leader. In his career, he has worked on building search engine platforms, forming product delivery and cloud services organization, and is passionate about managing and delivering technology…
Filling open IT and technology positions is a complex and time-consuming endeavor, especially when a company has specialized requirements and a short turnaround time. York Solutions’ Managed Service Solution (MS3) is a workforce resources solution that relieves internal employees of the hiring burden. MS3 screens, selects, and places top IT talent to reach business goals…
Last Friday at our IT Leadership Group Meeting, Chuck Martel, Staff VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics at Anthem, Inc., led an interactive discussion on the topic, Digital Shifts and Their Effects. A huge thank you to Securian for hosting our group! Chuck kicked off the meeting with a slide of a typewriter and asked, what…
At our most recent Quarterly Event, we learned the foundation of a personal brand. I want to thank Mark DiGiacoma for giving us the tools we need and hitting on the strengths we all have, to building your own personal brand. I would also like to thank Centro for hosting our meeting. Now let’s get…
York Solutions, a veteran owned IT consulting firm that uses a non-transactional, value-based approach to provide clients with custom workforce solutions to fit their business needs to successfully complete IT projects, has been recognized as one of 11 Chicago area IT consulting firms to know by Built In Chicago. Built In Chicago is an online…
We were honored to co-sponsor the second annual Veteran Career Summit alongside Exegistics and the ICATT Apprenticeship Program. This years’ summit focused on the value of developing a workplace initiative to recruit and retain veteran employees. As a veteran-owned business, certified by the National Veteran Business Development Council (NVBDC), York Solutions is dedicated to helping…
Why do we want to be OKR Superstars? Last Friday, at our Project Management Office Group Meeting we discussed just that. A huge thank you to Michaele Gardner, Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Thomas, for leading this interactive conversation. As we kicked off the meeting, we began with defining objectives and key results. An objective…