EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
WHAT MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN THE TALENT NEEDED TO TAKE THE TECH SECTOR INTO THE FUTURE ?
With CIOs now at the forefront of tech transformation there ’ s a real risk of the role unravelling as organizations re-frame their future around emerging innovation already outpacing the talent chasing its implementation . Latest stats show some 57 % of senior executive across APAC identifying advances in data and analytics as their top investment priority – up from 31 % in 2020 . The next generation APAC CIO will need to be as flexible and agile as those emerging tech ecosystems in retaining , recruiting and empowering a talent culture to make innovation inherent as an organizational mindset . That quality can ’ t be found in the cloud – yet .
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