A key to the success of IT organizations as we move toward the 21st century is the ability to maintain a high level of engagement and expertise on the part of IT professionals. Questions such as the following characterize the professional development issues for the coming decade.
Keeping current--How do IT and institutional leaders keep up with technical changes in this ever-evolving area?
Adapting to change--How do IT leaders adjust organizational structure and procedure to respond to the evolution in the technology?
Coping with pressure--How can we avoid burning out our best and brightest IT professionals?
New paradigms--How do we assist those IT professionals stuck in old paradigms?
New perspectives--How do we construct institution-wide strategies for developing administrative personnel into IT professionals?
Tomorrow's workforce--What are the training and development implications of IT for the workforce in the year 2000 and beyond?
People and IT--How do we keep an increasingly technology-intensive workplace healthful and humane?