Top 10 CIO Trends in 2020 to Drive IT Leadership

While succession planning is rarely listed as a top CIO trend, it can help address potential staffing issues. Among the areas of concern are cybersecurity management, data storage and backups, data protection and management, operations administration, application development, network management, physical security management, and governance, risk and compliance activities. The simplest approach is to prepare a table with names of the key employees and a list of their critical skills and capabilities. Next, identify other employees who have skill sets that overlap with the leads. This also helps identify opportunities for internal training programs to bring selected employees up to speed on skills needed to support senior employees.