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1. GLOBAL RESULTS
Technology skills
The importance to CIOs of successfully delivering technology projects has pushed project management skills to be the most sought after, and scarce, skill. The skill that has experienced the biggest growth in scarcity since last year was change management, suggesting that competitiveness for growth, and the associated major changes required to achieve this growth, are at the top of many CIOs’ lists.
CIOs express increased demand for project management skills Project management Enterprise architecture Business analysis Technical architecture Change management Mobile solutions Big data Development IT strategy Business relationship management Security and resilience
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Table 2: Which functions are you experiencing a skills shortage in?
Most successful CIO-led projects
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Chart 9: Proportion of projects in last two years viewed as 'very successful'
