Government IT leaders are heading for the door

Computerworld: At a time of government cutbacks, the tenures of public-sector CIOs are getting increasingly shorter than those of their private-sector counterparts.

Gartner's latest annual worldwide survey of some 2,000 CIOs in all sectors of the economy, including government, found that local, state or federal CIOs in the U.S. and Canada stay in their posts an average of 3.4 years.

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