By Kim S. Nash
Wed, February 23, 2011
CIO — Social networking savvy. Mobile development experience. Business process smarts. Cloud management expertise.
Thanks to rapidly changing technology and evolving business expectations,
Office Professional Plus 2007, the skills you need on staff to outcompete your rivals are morphing around you. If you don’t hire right, you won’t be ready for the future.
Already, that’s clear. CIOs see some serious holes in the competencies of their IT groups and their companies generally, according to a joint survey of 370 IT leaders by CIO magazine and the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). The biggest gaps are in social media, collaboration and mobile technology. Forty-four percent of CIOs said their companies lack collaboration expertise; just 8 percent named collaboration as a formal enterprise capability. Meanwhile,
Microsoft Office 2010, 27 percent said they lack expertise in evaluating mobile,
Microsoft Office Pro 2007, tablet and other new technologies. (For more on this survey, see "Survey: More to IT Than Building and Running Systems.")
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