Accenture has brought out the latest report on <a href="http://www.accenture.com/Global/High_Performance_Business/default.htm">high performing IT organisations</a> with the finding that the gap between high performers and less agile IT teams is growing.
If you are on a recruitment drive, the biggest lure is increasingly a generous pay package, rather than what the company can offer in terms of job satisfaction.
BT tech guru and former CIO JP Rangaswami has been appointed as chief scientist at Salesforce.com, a similar role he held at the UK telecoms provider for the last four years.
Private sector CIOs appear to be optimistic that the UK government's comprehensive spending review will not have a knock-on effect in their own patch.