US CIO: Skills to decline

Analysts at the US CIO Forum, organised by Richmond Events, predicted that massive growth in outsourcing will kill off technical skills within IT departments. ?Ten years from now, there will be no IT organisation as we know it,? said David Foote, managing partner of IT labour market researchers Cromwell Foote Partners. Foote forecast that so-called business technologists ? functioning like internal management consultants ? will remain as the core of US IT operations.