Canada - The Top Ten IT Issues

When the CICA Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC) did its last survey of top IT issues, the economy was thriving, the stock market was high and boomers were busy planning their retirement. Now, one year later, the economy is suffering the greatest slump since the Great Depression, the stock market has lost a third of its value and some boomers have postponed their retirement — that is, if they haven’t been forced into it. While the issues that topped last year’s list — a shortage of IT skills, privacy and outsourcing — are still of concern, privacy and outsourcing didn’t even make the top 10 this year. They were edged out by such items as the impact of the recession, new regulatory requirements and the role of Web 2.0 applications in organizational systems. This year the recession was the top item on the list. (Read the article "The Top Ten IT Issues" in the September 2009 issue of CAmagazine online.)