Just as historical reports alone aren't sufficient for making corporate decisions— executives want business intelligence to identify current and future trends—IT staffers need to know more about BI than how to run a data warehouse or build a dashboard. That puts CIOs in a bind, according to industry experts, who have raised alarms about a data analytics skills deficit.

A look at recent movements among Australian CIOs

While women have earned more than a third of MBAs awarded in the U.S. for at least a decade, and account for three of every five accountants and auditors, they make up less than 9% of CFOs within the Fortune 500, according to Catalyst, a nonprofit focused on women in business.

Critical IT staffing shortages will put many businesses at risk in the next few years if immediate steps are not taken to change current workforce planning models.

Enterprises without a chief security officer or a beefed up security department will be left wide open as hackers use new exploits to strike, warns a security industry expert.

What department heads and line managers think of HR, what employees think, and what HR managers think.

Driven to austerity in an economy that only recently appears ready to expand again, companies will likely hire slightly more data center workers this year, according to experts.

Whenever CIOs start talking about how to attract a new generation of young people to IT, the conversation tends to run in predictable circles.

In the good old days of CRM, the software ran on your servers and needed heavy customization to really work with the rest of your business. The staffing decisions were pretty straightforward: There might be implementation consultants, but the system needed an ongoing team of your own staff. In one of these classic on-premise implementations I came across just last year, the CRM "permanent staff" was 1 development/operational person for every 100 users.

If CIOs could recruit their IT staff from the realms of film and television who would they choose? The answers will surprise you. . .