Information Technology Profession: Understand the Skill Shifts

IT leaders value business, functional, and project management skills, but are not investing in the entry level programming skills in the U.S., where early talent is developed. Christopher Koch, CIO, challenges the recent data that the IT workforce has regained its Y2K size and everything is just peachy. Further review of the data shows major structural shifts in skills and jobs have occurred. ...

... "In a survey of 82 companies that began earlier this year and is continuing, the Society of Information Management's team of academic researchers asked which skills IT leaders thought were most important to keep in house today. The top skills were all related to business process or project management. " ...

Information Technology Profession: Understand the Skill Shifts: The Structural Shift in IT - Koch's IT Strategy - Blog - CIO