| | June 20167CIOReviewand transformation across their larger organizations­delivering value to their business peers and citizens.DATA: Citizen Privacy Needs vs. Transparency Goals: On one hand we have HIPAA, PCI, CJIS, and a growing list of other laws and regulations demanding you lock your data down tight. On the other hand, we have demands for increased online citizen eServices, transparency, civic-tech and open data initiatives. This is a high pressure seismic fault that requires enhanced IT leadership. Skills such as political savvy and dealing with ambiguity are critical.Changing Workforce Dynamics -The Silver Tsunami is hitting the entire IT workforce. IT leaders need to be able to recruit, develop, and retain the new generation of IT workers­Millennials. They are truly different which requires IT leaders to adjust their traditional management methods. To them, work is about the `cause', so IT leaders need to help them make the connection between what they do in their cubicles with how it impacts the lives of our citizens. Your traditional technical IT leader may not have these skills. IT Environment. Our IT environments are getting increasingly more complex with the constant additions of new technologies while the pace that we retire old technologies crawls along painfully slow. In addition, the industry continues to produce new and updated guidance and frameworks for us to implement such as ITIL, COBIT, TOGAF and NIST. IT leaders need to be able to continuously learn, un-learn, and re-learn. Learning agility is critical.The Growing Skills Gap: The current state of the IT workforceis not encouraging. An IT industry survey by TEK systems states that 80 percent of IT leaders believe they have a skill gap in their workforce that is hampering their ability to deliver what their organizations need. This skill gap challenge is exasperated by a general shortage of computer science and related program graduates. IT leaders need to be able to train and develop their teams on the right skills needed to deliver what their organizations need.IT leadership is very broad and much larger than technology. It should be touching every aspect of large organization, from the IT shop itself and all back office operations, to every forward facing citizen service, empowering an organizational wide advanced digital workforce. Start now with a commitment to building IT leadership in your organization and make it a priority. IT leaders need to dig in and start comprehensively addressing cybersecurity challenges and engaging their entire organization
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