Mobility is dominating the mindshare across IT organisations and is vital to having a digital work life, according to Citrix president and CEO, Mark Templeton.

Imagine an organisation where employees are given several consecutive months of vacation every year. It sounds like a dream, but in the era of BYOD, it could also be an IT exec's worst nightmare.

Changing business demands and technology trends, such as Cloud computing, mobility and the consumerisation of IT, are changing the role of CIOs and redefining the skills needed to be successful, according to talent solution company, Hudson.

The underlying trends in 2011 are the continued explosive growth of video communications, mobile devices and media tablets. On the surface, they may seem to be very different areas, but in fact we are seeing advances of one area driving adoption in the other. The solution glue is known as unified communications (UC) and the market trend, consumerisation of IT.

It's a good bet you don't know how much your company is spending on all those bring-your-own-device smartphones and tablets. Even worse, it's probably too much, says a mobility management expert.

Both the role and skills requirements of chief information officers (CIOs) are being transformed as a result of changing business demands and the big technology trends – Cloud, mobility, the consumerisation of IT – according to Hudson’s latest 'ICT Leaders Series' report.