These are the areas with maximum career growth opportunity, say CIOs

Analytics and security are the areas within enterprise IT that will provide best career growth option to younger IT exectutives, reveal a quick CIO research conducted by CIO&Leader in the weekend. While cloud came up as a distant but clear third, many new areas such as IoT, AI, robotics, blockchain, machine learbing etc were also named by some of the CIOs. A couple of CIOs rejected the idea that one needs to choose an area, suggesting instead they need focus and support. 

This is what CIO&Leader asked 

For a junior IT exec in user side, what are the best tech areas for career growth: infra, enterprise apps, security, analytics, cloud...?

— CIO&Leader (@cioandleader) September 18, 2016

Answers came thick and fast. While Analytics and security stole the show, it is interesting to note that few thought enterprise applications or infrastructure, that was considered  core IT in enterprises till yesterday, provide much scope for growth. Though it shows a paradigm shift, it is not surprising.  

Here is a selection of some tweets. We have excluded a few tweets which were not by CIOs, or which were the same as those carried. They are presented here in the order in which they were posted. Some of the CIOs who responded belong to top companies in India, including Essar Group, Tata Motors, NDTV, Shalimar Paints, Pidilite Industries and the like.  

Vikas Arora, VP Global Security and IT, Toluna

@cioandleader I'd put my bet on analytics and security. Security has millions of opportunities; but analytics will never die!

— Vikas Arora (@techievicky) September 18, 2016

— Sayed Peerzade (@iamsayed) September 18, 2016

Sabyasachi Thakur, CIO, Century Plywoods

@cioandleader analytics , data scientist to be precise

— Sabyasachi Thakur (@SabyThakur) September 18, 2016

@cioandleader Security certainly tops the list, the demand is more n supply is less, always challenging! #CIO #CISO #ITSecurity #CSO #ITSec

— Chandresh Dedhia (@chandreshd) September 18, 2016

Anwer Bagdadi, VP (Tech & Operations), Intertech Software

Career growth is evolution depends on environment, empowerment, exposure and enlightenment not square & round holes. https://t.co/ssZUXudKr0

— anwer bagdadi (@abagdadi) September 18, 2016

Nilesh Sangoi, CIO, Meru Cab Company

@cioandleader @techievicky @Sureshkm_GT @dhandu1957 @chandreshd @arya_bhupesh @jayantmagar @SHEGDE21 @sankarson Analytics, without doubt!

— Nilesh Sangoi (@nileshsangoi) September 18, 2016

Kamal Karnatak, Group CIO , RJ Corp

@cioandleader while security and analytics remain the top bet, continously fast learning attitude tops the list in changing world.

— Kamal Karnatak (@kamalkarnatak) September 18, 2016

Ashok Jade, CIO, Shalimar Paints

Anjani Kumar, CIO, Safexpress

@cioandleader first it depends on the interest. However #itsecurity #analytics & #cloud r definitely better career choices than others

— Anjani (@anjaniglobal) September 18, 2016

Avinash Velhal, Group CIO, IMEA, Atos International

@cioandleader @aneeshnair @ashokjade @abagdadi @Jeyceebee @NJayantha @anjaniglobal @kamalkarnatak @chandreshd I recomend robotics AI and IoT

— Avinash Velhal (@avelhal) September 18, 2016

Jagdish Belwal, CIO, Tata Motors

I'd recommend app dev n arch wid new Gen tech- APIs, Big Data/ ML, Wallets, html5, Cloud services, IOT... N cybersec https://t.co/SgLo2xuvPd

— Jagdish Belwal (@Jeyceebee) September 18, 2016

Keyur Desai, VP, IT, Essar

@cioandleader @Chaitanya_70 @PDHARMANI @girishr19051969 Analytics is the business requirement with Security as the underlying layer...!!!

— Keyur Desai (@keydesai) September 18, 2016

N Jayantha Prabhu. CIO, Essar Group

@cioandleader @aneeshnair @ashokjade @avelhal @abagdadi @Jeyceebee @anjaniglobal @kamalkarnatak @chandreshd Security & AI got growth/ future

— Jayantha Prabhu (@NJayantha) September 19, 2016

Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries 

@cioandleader
analytics. .

— Pankaj Bhargava (@pbhargava2412) September 19, 2016

Suresh Kumar, Partner & CIO, Grant Thornton

@cioandleader @techievicky @nileshsangoi @dhandu1957 @chandreshd @arya_bhupesh @jayantmagar @SHEGDE21 @sankarson Security and Analytics

— Suresh Kumar (@Sureshkm_GT) September 19, 2016

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