HANOVER, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TEKsystems®, a leading provider of IT staffing solutions and IT services, today detailed findings that indicate a fundamental shift impacting current roles and expectations of IT departments, which in turn are creating changes to the leadership responsibilities of CIOs. Gathered in conjunction with its 2018 IT Forecast, data indicates CIOs will need to adopt a dual role with an increasing shift toward becoming a “partner-liaison” for tech initiatives outside core IT’s traditional domain. Trends indicate new initiatives still owned by core IT are being increasingly outsourced, accompanied by an upswing in tech initiatives being directed by other internal lines-of-business. The end result is that IT leaders are indicating their roles are evolving, with internal IT department personnel increasingly being leveraged for maintaining existing systems, and strategic new initiatives laying outside the purview of centralized IT. Additionally, while an increasing percentage of CIOs hope to occupy a transformational role within organizations in the next two years, in reality, the opportunity may lay outside traditional responsibilities.

Results are based on a survey which polled more than 1,000 IT leaders (e.g., chief information officers, IT vice presidents, IT directors, IT hiring managers) in October 2017 on a range of key issues, including IT staffing and budgets, skill needs and expected organizational challenges in 2018.

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