CIOs must re-learn management skills

Technology executives must adapt to the changing needs of the industry

Management talent in increasingly short supply

Chief information officers (CIO) must develop new kinds of management skill to address future staff shortages.

By 2010, half of organisations will face a shortage of management talent. IT leaders of the future will need to champion change, spur innovation, unify employees across business units and act as role models, says a report by research analyst Gartner, published today.

But fewer than half of traditional managers and supervisors will successfully make the transition.

Today's IT managers need to identify new management challenges and actively recruit externally to fill management talent gaps, says the report.

‘Evaluate your management team using self, peer, employees, manager and, potentially, customer or partner assessments to determine levels of competency in these new disciplines,’ it says.

The report also recommends researching the skills needed and how to develop them to redesign management development programs to include those skills.