As technology giants Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google build data centers in Greater Des Moines and tech startups target the Silicon Prairie, CIOs in the region may want to rethink their strategy for attracting and retaining workers.
Ami Sarnowski, Chief Innovation Officer at Genesis10 explores this topic fully in an opinion piece in the Des Moines Business Record. In it, she offers solutions, suggesting CIOs consider different workforce tactics such as relocation of tech talent from other markets, reskilling workers and/or leveraging underutilized, but highly skilled, talent pools.