Public Sector, Industry Survey Reveals Challenges, Priorities, Motivations

A survey of participants at the recent Los Angeles IT Leadership Forum revealed interesting and useful sentiments about leadership, priorities, motivation and challenges.

The event offered a chance for emerging public-sector IT leaders to gather with industry representatives to exchange ideas, collaborate and discuss leadership issues. It was put on by Government Technology, sister publication of Industry Insider — California.

“These survey results provide an interesting and current look into what’s on the mind of the public-sector IT leaders in the room,” said Mike Driessen, vice president of Subscription Services for e.Republic, of which both publications are a part. “It’s useful to know when engaging with them what are the hot topics, and what are not.”

The questions and responses are as follows:

What leadership trait do you value the most?

1. The ability to get things done
2. The ability to manage relationships (tie)
3. The ability to communicate (tie)
4. The ability to strategize

What is the biggest challenge you experience as an IT leader?

1. Leadership support
2. Speed of delivery
3. Workforce (tie)
4. Collaboration (tie)
5. Budget
6. Outdated technology
7. Other
   

From your perspective, what is the most compelling reason to work in state or local government?

1. Knowing at the end of the day that you are impacting people’s lives for the better
2. The benefits
3. Job security

What are your top three priorities for 2023?

1. Modernization
2. Workforce
3. Cybersecurity
4. Cloud
5. Data/privacy