IDG Contributor Network: Managing tech pros in 2019: What’s ahead and why

Exactly one year ago this column predicted a conspicuously different year ahead for tech labor: twelve months of employers facing up to a single hard truth---a shocking lack of readiness for new blockbuster technologies like A.I., blockchain, and a variety of digital innovations. Moreover, we posited they would finally begin to tackle the problem in more substantive ways.  And this happened in 2018 according to many of our indicators. More on this later.Now employers face an even harder tr