Dallas/Fort Worth CIOs Forecast Increase in First-Quarter Hiring
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DALLAS, Dec. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 15 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Dallas/Fort Worth area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the first quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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After years of hearing that investing in IT was a smart strategic plan, business executives seem to have gotten the message, according to a new Gartner CIO survey released today -- but only when the dollars are going to technology efforts that have visible benefits for the bottom line, primarily externally facing initiatives involving customers or partners.The good news is that, despite the softening economy, IT budgets are going up 3.3 percent across the nearly 1,500 companies that Gartner surveyed. The data that matters for IT execs: Budgets for companies focused on bottom-line-oriented efforts are increasing 4.9 percent, said Mark McDonald, a Gartner Group vice president. Those organizations whose IT strategy involves only an efficiency focus will typically see budget increases of just 1.7 percent.The survey shows that a sea change has occurred in IT priorities, McDonald noted. The top three priorities in 2008 are improving business processes, attracting and retaining new customers, and creating new products and services. The sea change is the third priority, which was the No. 10 priority in 2007. Gone from the top three is reducing enterprise costs, which has slipped to No. 5. The decline of cost-cutting as a priority and the rise of innovation show the sea change that has occurred, McDonald says.But IT managers hoping for a return to the 1990s glory days of annual budget increases of 15-plus percent will be disappointed, McDonald said. In that era, IT budgets were driven by technology initiatives done almost for their own sake, as businesses both experimented with the new Internet and began to use technology widely within their walls. "Today, it's more about specific business needs," he said, "We're seeing strategies well grounded in business operations changes, not chasing a fad."And it's not CIOs driving the budget growth; it's the C-suite executives who now finally see IT as a business enabler, McDonald added. If anything, CIOs who promote IT as a force for business change were typically dismissed as self-interested. He noted, "Calling attention to yourself is never very positive."Although there is a mounting possibility that the U.S. economy may be entering a recession, McDonald doesn't believe IT will see its budgets slashed, as happened in the 2000-2001 recession. That recession came after years of unbridled IT spending whose specific business benefits were often unclear. The more moderate budget growth predicted for 2008 won't give businesses the same easy cuts they had then, he noted. "If you cut IT's budget by 10 percent, you might just see a 0.2 percent effect on the whole budget," McDonald explained, "You can get more bang for your buck by lowering [overall] operations costs through investing in better IT." That's why businesses are looking to increase IT spending for bottom-line-oriented initiatives, he said.
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A new report predicts that the federal market for knowledge management solutions will grow by almost one-third in the next five years to more than $1.
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The lid on IT salaries is beginning to lift, and IT specialists should see gains of as much as 10 to 15 percent over the next three years, according to a new IT staff salaries study by the META Group.
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IT professionals can expect a moderate increase in starting salary, a staffing firm says.
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HOUSTON, June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 13 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Houston area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the third quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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More American companies expect to add jobs in the fourth quarter than a year ago, even as they remain cautious about hiring, a new survey said.
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CIO confidence is up in third quarter, according to Forrester poll.
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Turnaround CIOs use different skills and have different kinds of careers than their long-term counterparts.
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PHILADELPHIA, June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 10 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Philadelphia area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the third quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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The prospect of finding a job in the area is still strong moving into the first quarter, according to the most recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
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According to economists and employment analysts, the job picture will be brighter next year.
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St. Louis area employers expect to hire at a moderate pace during the first quarter of 2005, according to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
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DENVER, Dec. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 11 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Denver area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the first quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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Some 250 CIOs surveyed last month by CIO magazine said they expect their IT budgets to grow by 7.4% during the next year, down slightly from the 8.9% spending increase respondents predicted in August.
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ORLANDO, Fla., June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 15 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Orlando area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the third quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.
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DENVER, March 6  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 15 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Denver area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the second quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.