Tom Kenaley
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The electrical engineer interview questions that work in 2026 make a candidate produce a number, mark up a schematic, and explain when they would refuse to work on something energized. Definitions of Ohm’s law and power factor tell you who studied. They don’t tell you who can … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The COO interview questions that work in 2026 ask a finalist where work waited longest in their last company, how they proved it was the real bottleneck, and what the fix did to cash, lead time, and the next constraint. Most of what’s on the popular lists … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The best controller interview questions in 2026 make the candidate trace one transaction from source document to financial statement, explain one balance sheet account line by line, and rework a small reconciliation in the room. Describing the job is the easy part. Every finalist can do it. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A contractor knowledge transfer plan keeps you from getting locked in when it’s written at signing, names an employee to receive each item, and proves every transfer with a test instead of a document. Most lock-in doesn’t come from a contract clause. It comes from accounts, pipelines, … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Managed capacity is an engagement model where you pay a vendor a fixed monthly fee for a set-size team, point it at your own backlog, and let the vendor run, staff, and replace that team while you keep the priorities. It sits between staff augmentation, where you … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Contingent workforce program governance starts with six written pages covering who counts as a contingent worker, who may engage one, who decides classification, what every supplier must accept, what rates and conversion fees apply, and how managers treat contractors. Write those before any VMS demo or MSP … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A data warehouse migration moves the tables, SQL code, pipelines, and reports off a legacy platform like Teradata, Netezza, or Hadoop and onto a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery. It runs in four phases. Each phase needs different people, and most companies staff it … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A chief data officer job description should state the year-one goal, the reporting line, any duties a regulator expects someone to be named for, what the CIO, CISO, and AI leader keep, and a real pay range. Responsibilities come after that. Most CDO postings flip the order. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A Guidewire developer job description should name the application and the Guidewire Cloud release or self-managed version your team runs, list the Gosu, PCF, and integration work the developer owns, and state where business analyst work stops. Add a sentence on AI coding tools and a real … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The CFO interview questions that matter in 2026 test which kind of CFO your company needs, whether the candidate knows their current numbers without notes, and how they would run the next thirteen weeks of cash. Nobody reaches a CFO final round without knowing what EBITDA is. … Read more
