Confidence in satisfying and supporting core IT has diminished due in part to a strain on declining IT budgets and initiatives now progressing beyond implementation into production mode, according to TEKsystems' annual IT Forecast research.
Survey results also reveal a diminishing strategic role for senior IT managerial positions in today’s reshaped IT department, where responsibilities are focused less on new initiatives and more around core IT activities related to maintaining existing implementations, including a focus on security and data access/integrity.
Methodology: More than 1,000 IT leaders (i.e., chief information officers, IT vice presidents, IT directors, IT hiring managers) were polled in October 2017 on a range of key issues, including IT staffing and budgets, skill needs and expected organizational challenges in 2018.