IT professionals 'need business focus'
30/11/2007(11:05)
Management skills are vital for those working their way up the career ladder in IT, new research reveals.
Parity Training says that while companies have been happy to help develop the technical knowledge needed to work in this area, other skills have been neglected.
Managing director Rick Firth went as far as to suggest that IT skills could come second to other more pertinent skills in some cases.
"We believe that senior IT Professionals must be business people first and have the commercial and management skills to manage teams of people, financial budgets and projects," he said.
Functional skills, such as project and budget management and customer satisfaction, were vital, Mr Frith suggested.
He added that Parity, which was founded 30 years ago and has an annual turnover of £150 million, is going to focus on training in areas where there are identifiable skills shortages.
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