{"id":184,"date":"2006-10-03T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/10\/businesses-minting-more-it-managers.html"},"modified":"2006-10-03T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T12:04:00","slug":"businesses-minting-more-it-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/businesses-minting-more-it-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses minting more IT managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"technoratitag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/shared\/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=193100560\">InformationWeek picked up on an interesting trend<\/a>: the number of IT managers is growing. The newsweekly cites Bureau of Labor Statistics figures documenting a 44% increase in IT management titles since 2001, while programming and support jobs are down 19%. The publication cites several reasons for this shift, principally outsourcing and the trend toward aligning IT people with the business, which means more project management and less coding.<\/p>\n<p>This is a welcome trend. Outsourcing has finally reached a level of legitimacy within most businesses that executives are rethinking the wisdom of having a captive workforce of people who don&#8217;t add value to the business but mainly tend the machines.  This is  actually good news for  technical IT people, too. A glass ceiling has existed in corporations for a long time when it comes to IT. Technical people could only go so far in the organization before their lack of business skills held them back.<\/p>\n<p>The figures indicate that a two-track model is developing. Technical people can go to work for organizations that specialize in providing IT infrastructure and development on an outsourced basis. They have a good career path there. IT people with business skills can go the management route within businesses, who are increasingly outsourcing non-strategic functions. They&#8217;ll have more opportunity than they would have had in the past, too.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to IWeek for spotting this shift.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/del.icio.us\/pgillin\" rel=\"tag\"><br \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InformationWeek picked up on an interesting trend: the number of IT managers is growing. The newsweekly cites Bureau of Labor Statistics figures documenting a 44% increase in IT management titles since 2001, while programming and support jobs are down 19%. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/businesses-minting-more-it-managers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-2Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}