The one magazine we read regularly is CIO UK. We like it because it focuses on the business and management issues that IT leaders face, rather than writing about vendors or their products.

The magazine conducts a regular survey of the top concerns of IT leaders and then groups its articles around these themes. Their current top 10 are:

1. Recruiting, training and managing staff
2. Managing budgets
3. Aligning IT with the business
4. Infrastructure refresh
5. Security
6. Compliance
7. Managing time and resources
8. Dealing with users
9. Change management
10. Dealing with senior management

But what has always surprised us is that the main challenge faced by CIO's has never appeared in the CIO UK survey - creating business value.

We've prepared a special report on the challenges and concerns facing CIOs, which adds the following to the top ten list above:

• Career management
• Dealing with vendors
• Inherited infrastructure problems
• IT governance
• Keeping up with technology
• Key questions from the CEO
• Project management
• The first 100 days

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