But at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Midyear Conference in April, Government Technology heard from many state IT leaders that maybe the reality wasn’t as bad as predicted. Illinois Acting CIO Kirk Lonbom noted that while there are some people ready to retire in his department, not all those people will.
So Lonbom is focusing not on the numbers of retirees, but on how to best manage the workforce that he has, regardless of time in the industry. To keep staff trained and up to date, he points to a need for vendors to bring change management tools to the state along with new technologies.