Julia King

Globalization will hit virtually all large corporate IT departments within the next year. By 2004, eight out of 10 CIOs will have direct marching orders to move offshore at least part of the technology services they provide to their businesses. Four out of 10 companies will already have done so, according to research from Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn.

Globalization, greater access to a broader range of IT service providers and an even stricter alignment between business and IT are among the key factors that will impact CIOs and corporate IT departments in the next five years, according to a panel of three Chicago-area CIOs.

For the second year in a row, most of the IT professionals who responded to Computerworld's annual salary survey received only modest pay raises, as well as flat or smaller bonus amounts compared with previous years.

More and more North American workers aren't showing up at the office. Their cubicles are vacant, their desktop PCs idle.

Globalization will hit virtually all large corporate IT departments within the next year. By 2004, eight out of 10 CIOs will have direct marching orders to move offshore at least part of the technology services they provide to their businesses. Four out of 10 companies will already have done so, according to research from Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn.

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While much of the IT world focuses on building computers that are faster, smaller, cheaper and brainier, CEO Peter Lucas and his colleagues at Maya Design Inc. are obsessed with liberating the reams of data that computers contain, regardless of the format in which the data is stored.

If he were writing a song about his first 18 months in the top IT post at BMC Software ...