When we examine the growth forecasts by IT staff size, some clear themes emerge. CIOs with large IT staffs were more likely to forecast growth for IT management skills, especially those associated with more complex IT operations such as IT project portfolio management and IT risk assessment. CIOs with medium and large IT staffs shared strong growth forecasts for web computing and systems and database skills, as well as for skills that comprise management and use of information as an asset. CIOs of small agencies were more likely to forecast growth in infrastructure skills, as were CIOs of medium agencies. Table 14 below highlights these similarities and differences in the growth forecasts across the three agency size groups. (Similar data for the other forecast types can be found in Tables E12 –E14 in Appendix E.

Table 14. Similarities and differences in growth forecast across agency size groups

Competency Area	In use and growing (50% or more of CIOs in all three agency size groups chose this forecast)	Differences among in use and growing forecasts (50% or more of CIOs in the listed size groups chose this forecast)
Management	Project management	Change management (medium, large) IT project portfolio management (medium, large) Business continuity planning (medium, large) IT asset management (medium, large) Financial management (medium) Organizational awareness & business knowledge (medium) Leadership (large) IT strategic planning (large) Managing consultant staff (large) IT risk assessment & management (large) Capacity management (large) Contract management & vendor relationships (large) IT procurement (large) Planning & evaluation (large)
Infrastructure	System security applications Identity management & directory services Encryption Web/IP Mobile computing Disaster recovery planning Intrusion detection	Network architecture & design principles (small, medium) Firewalls (small, medium) Windows operating systems (small, medium) Windows network operating systems (small, medium) Wireless technologies (small, medium) Network configuration (small, medium) Backup & recovery (small, medium) Technology training activities (small, medium) Open systems server administration (medium) Unified messaging services (medium) Linux operating systems (medium) Video imaging (medium) Cellular technologies (medium) Broadband technologies (large) Wide Area Networks (WAN) (large)
Web computing	Website design & development Website Management DHTML/ HTML / XHTML	Web servers (small, medium) Website accessibility (medium, large) Website search administration (medium, large) Website privacy (medium, large) Java (medium, large) JavaScript (medium, large) XML/ XSL (medium, large) UNIX (large) Unified Modeling Language (UML) (large)
Systems and databases	Systems integration	Object-oriented analysis & design principles (medium, large) Technical documentation (medium, large) Oracle (medium, large) Systems architecture (medium, large) Systems life cycle planning principles (medium, large) Testing & evaluation (medium, large) Database design & development standards (medium, large) Business process analysis (large) Quality assurance (large) Joint Application Development (JAD)/ prototyping (large) CASE tools (large) Requirements analysis (large)
Technical support services		Call center activities (large) Help desk activities (medium)
Management and use of information as an asset	Records management	Data warehousing (medium, large) Content management (medium, large) Collaboration software (medium, large) Workflow management (medium, large)
Legacy technologies