Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Attracting, retaining IT professionals key concern for nation's CIOs

Ensuring business-IT alignment is a top concern among the nation's leading CIOs, but for the first time in years, it's not the top concern, according to new research conducted by the Society for Information Management (CIO). The impending IT talent crunch has re-focused CIOs' attention on retaining and attracting IT professionals.

More than 130 CIO and IT executives from 112 different companies responded to this year's SIM membership survey, which polled members to determine the issues that are top of mind for them.

IT and business alignment is still a major concern among CIOs, finishing second on the list of top ten issues, followed by:

- Build Business Skills in IT
- Reduce the Cost of Doing business
- Improve IT Quality
- Security & Privacy
- Manage Change
- IT Strategic Planning
- Making Better use of Information
- Evolving CIO Leadership

Some other highlights from this year's report include:

- 78.6 percent of respondents expect to maintain or increase their IT budget in 2008

- 75.4 percent expect to maintain or increase their IT staff

- The CIO or top IT Executive has been in their position for an average of 4.1 years (compared to 3.6 in the 2006 survey)

- 31.4 percent of CIOs report to the CEO (compared to 45.2 percent in 2006); 29.3 percent report to the CFO (compared to 25.4 percent in 2006)

More information can be found at http://www.supportindustry.com/.

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