Getting a look into the future is always a good thing as it can help you prepare yourself and your team for what's coming. As an article in CIO magazine details, the dawn of the "Postmodern IT" department that will come into play will be a smaller business unit in which the CIO will play a strong innovative role. The IT unit will be in "desperate need" of multi-talented professionals chock-full of deep tech knowledge but also strong business skills to create new products and services. In fact the article claims that IT, and its leadership, will ultimately become the responsible team for business innovation across the organization. It's an interesting read for those IT managers looking to move up and for today's CIOs wanting a glimpse of what tomorrow will be bringing to their job role.

In the meantime, here are some recent career announcements about colleagues taking on new leadership roles:

Robert Howard has been named supervisor of the Office of Information and Technology at the Veterans Affairs Department.

Barry Condrey has been tapped as CIO for Chesterfield County, VA.

Christine Liu is now CIO at the Small Business Administration.