EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
IS TECH DOING ENOUGH TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN TALENT FOR FUTURE CHALLENGES ?
With CIOs now at the forefront of tech transformation there ’ s a real risk of the role unravelling as organizations re-frame their future around emerging innovation already outpacing the talent chasing its implementation .
Recent US tech talent stats show 73 % of IT leaders identify that recruiting technologists and filling open tech positions is a key challenge with 90 % of hiring managers struggling to fill roles for Cloud , AI , Data
Science , Security and IT Architecture and 49 % of organizations say that they have unfilled positions in their cyber security divisions .
The next generation NA CIO will need to be as flexible and agile as those emerging tech ecosystems in retaining , recruiting and empowering a talent culture to make innovation inherent as an organizational mindset .
That quality can ’ t be found in the cloud – yet .
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