Arthur Langer, Chariman and Founder of Workforce Opportunity Services

In this interview, Arthur Langer, Chairman and Founder of Workforce Opportunity Services, a nonprofit charitable organization that helps companies build strong talent pipelines through unique work-study programs, discusses World Class IT principle one, People, and principle five, External Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

• How the CIO role is evolving to become more strategic
• The importance of articulating complex IT concepts in business terms to facilitate collaboration with the business
• How IT can be categorized as drivers and support, with the latter a target for outsourcing
• The origins of Workforce Opportunity Services and how they help major corporations fulfill their needs
• The process by which Workforce Opportunity Services supplies talent to corporations
• Eye on the trends: The increased role of IT as technology develops as a competitive advantage