Future IT managers 'require business skills'

Graduates looking for a career in the IT sector may be interested to hear that there is currently a gap between the technical expertise and management skills of IT professionals.

Research by Parity Training has suggested that IT workers are lacking business knowledge and that focus must turn to developing these skills.

Managing Director of the company, Rick Firth, remarked that many firms have invested in technical know-how without spending time training and providing workers with professional and management expertise.

'We believe that senior IT professionals must be businesspeople first and have the commercial and management skills to manage teams of people, financial budgets and projects,' he stated.

Mr Firth added that his firm is to focus on closing the current skills gap.

'We will be focusing our delivery strategy at the IT business improvement level,' he asserted.

It was recently suggested by Maggie Berry of womenintechnology.co.uk that the IT sector is not doing enough to retain talent or attract women to the industry.