While many larger firms are looking to outsourcers and consulting firms to fill their IT skills gap, Forrester feels that there are still plenty of opportunities out there for good storage directors and information security specialists.
While a 500-person IT shop may need hundreds of software developers, for example, theyll require no more than half a dozen enterprise architects, information security experts or storage directors, writes Cecere.
The analyst also has some advice for firms looking to get their hands on the top talent. CIOs need to identify their primary skill gaps; determine which roles they should hire, cultivate, or rent; identify where they can compromise; and develop retention and development strategies for those roles, he explained. Many of the hot roles demand breadth, influence without formal power, and knowledge of company culture rather than hiring these from outside, source roles from within.
Training and certification are also crucial, according to Cecere.
"[Promoting the best internal candidates] can be done by recruiting from the business functions or units, or through job rotation, training, certifications, and management of individual career paths, he wrote.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
