CIO & LEADER-Issue-10-January 2018 (1)
The cover story on CIO&Leader's January issue is a dive into the skills that CIOs are going to develop and hire in 2018
The cover story on CIO&Leader's January issue is a dive into the skills that CIOs are going to develop and hire in 2018
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Cover Story<br />
Which tech skills are you planning to develop in <strong>2018</strong>?<br />
<strong>10</strong>%<br />
IT<br />
Security<br />
26%<br />
Cloud<br />
Services<br />
33%<br />
Big<br />
Data<br />
64%<br />
Digital<br />
Technologies<br />
Which skill is more important to develop in <strong>2018</strong>?<br />
“Every <strong>CIO</strong> is<br />
probably in the<br />
middle of a classic<br />
fear-of-missingout<br />
moment with<br />
technology”<br />
7%<br />
Leadership<br />
27%<br />
Technology<br />
66%<br />
All of the<br />
above<br />
What is the level of difficulty you face/have faced in<br />
hiring skills for IT?<br />
7%<br />
Easy<br />
27%<br />
Medium<br />
45%<br />
Hard<br />
14%<br />
Very Hard<br />
7%<br />
None of<br />
the above<br />
Source: Skills survey <strong>2018</strong><br />
tors and outsourcing services to meet this challenge. But we<br />
all know the reality of the modern world that this solution<br />
is far from sustainable, and is definitely expensive (even if<br />
companies can afford to spend on it) in the long run. Developing<br />
and retaining IT talent is a critical issue that organizations<br />
are already facing or likely to face in the future. <strong>CIO</strong>s<br />
find themselves tacking this problem head first. The other<br />
not-so-immediate solution is for <strong>CIO</strong>s to focus on reskilling<br />
and upskilling their workforce. This is definitely not an<br />
option, but is a necessity of modern times.<br />
Some of the leading <strong>CIO</strong>s in the industry are already<br />
advocating a radical new approach. They are identifying<br />
and incubating small technology start-ups within their own<br />
organizations. This way they are able to add new skills,<br />
capabilities and competencies to their teams and stay not<br />
only relevant to their organizations, and win from within.<br />
As they cultivate new skills, <strong>CIO</strong>s are not leaving any<br />
stone unturned to develop their own leadership and technology<br />
skills. <strong>CIO</strong>s today want to be in the know and get<br />
their hands dirty as new technologies get deployed within<br />
their organizations. In the survey, 65% of <strong>CIO</strong>s said that<br />
they want to develop skills in digital technologies namely<br />
IoT, artificial intelligence, and robotics, closely followed by<br />
big data (35%), cloud services (36%) and IT security (<strong>10</strong>%).<br />
Similarly, business transformation continues to be a top priority<br />
for <strong>CIO</strong>s.<br />
In order to dig deeper, we probed <strong>10</strong> leading Indian <strong>CIO</strong>s<br />
to tell us how they are finding top talent– and how they are<br />
planning to hone their leadership and technology skills and<br />
develop new competencies in <strong>2018</strong>. Here's what they said:<br />
18 <strong>CIO</strong>&<strong>LEADER</strong> | <strong>January</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
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