Arthur M. Langer, Chairman and Founder of Workforce Opportunity Services

Summary: 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