Emerging digital trends are top of mind for customer service and support leaders in 2019, according to a recent survey by Gartner.

Gartner predicts that by 2021, CIOs will be as responsible for culture change as chief HR officers.

IT companies have no other choice but to be highly creative and persevering in order to attract and retain the required staff.

In 2019, HR leaders’ top three key initiatives will be building critical skills and competencies, strengthening the current and future leadership bench and improving employee experience, according to Gartner.

New Rimac Automobili COO Tim Richardson combines years of experience as an automotive executive leading large operational organizations and developing manufacturing capabilities.

Intel announced that its board of directors has named Robert (Bob) Swan as the seventh CEO in Intel’s 50-year history.

Apple has hired an executive from Samsung SDI, the battery making affiliate of Samsung Electronics, to help lead its own battery work, according to Bloomberg.

Business leaders are looking to digitalization to create a higher-performing workforce, therefore digitalizing HR is the top-priority initiative for chief HR officers this year, according to Gartner.

IDC announced that Crawford Del Prete has been named by its parent company, International Data Group, as IDC's new President.

With U.S. unemployment rates remaining at historic lows, and more jobs available than there are people to fill them, U.S. workers are leveraging healthy economic conditions to become more active in their job searches, according to Gartner.

The number of employees in Germany reporting a high intent to stay with their current employer has fallen nearly 15 percentage points over the last three years, according to Gartner.

67 percent of business leaders agree their company must become significantly digitalized by 2020 to remain competitive, and they are looking for HR leaders to lead this transformation, according to Gartner.

Marketing leaders must adopt new skills, rooted in more modern collaborative leadership styles, in order to successfully lead an agile team today, according to Gartner.

Jack Ma, a former English teacher who helped found Alibaba two decades ago, outlined plans to hand the executive chairman role to Daniel Zhang, according to Bloomberg.

Uber selected Nelson Chai, a longtime banking executive, as chief financial officer, according to Bloomberg.

Netflix CFO David Wells will step down after eight years on the job, during which the streaming service grew into an entertainment giant, according to Bloomberg.

Facebook executive David Marcus resigned from Coinbase’s board, a sign the social network operator is pushing ahead with its own blockchain work, according to Bloomberg.

Intel announced that its board of directors has promoted three corporate officers.

Michael Bolle has joined the board of management of German company Bosch effective July 1. Bolle is currently head of the corporate sector for research and advance engineering.

Facebook is constantly expanding in its Silicon Valley hometown of Menlo Park. Now it’s making a bigger push into San Francisco, according to Bloomberg.

Facebook named new leaders for some of its main divisions, including the core social network, WhatsApp and Messenger, in the biggest management reshuffling since the company’s founding, according to Bloomberg.

Marco Lammer became the new General Manager for Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions.

80 percent of all Siemens employees worldwide are now also shareholders of the company. In total, around 300,000 of the company's 377,000 employees worldwide hold Siemens shares.

The A1 Telekom Austria Group announced that Thomas Arnoldner (40) will be nominated as new CEO by the two main shareholders, América Móvil and Österreichische Bundes-und Industriebeteiligungen (ÖBIB).

Ericsson announced changes to the group structure and its Executive Team. A Business Area Emerging Business is created to increase focus on innovation and new business development, with initial focus on IoT and within distributed cloud solutions.

Gideon Brothers announced that Josip Ćesić will lead the company’s Autonomous Technologies Division.

Texas Instruments said Rich Templeton is stepping down as president and chief executive officer after more than 13 years at the helm, according to Bloomberg.

Indian software-outsourcing giant Infosys named outsider Salil S Parekh as CEO, ending the company’s search for a new leader after previous head Vishal Sikka quit following criticism from a group of founders, according to Bloomberg.

The outstanding efforts of Bosch IT head Elmar Pritsch and his team have not gone unnoticed. The trade journals CIO and Computerwoche named the 48-year-old executive “CIO of the year” in the large company category at its gala in Munich.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise said Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman is stepping down after six years leading the company, according to Bloomberg.