Autonomic Computing

IT Skills Development

If new technologies, such as autonomic computing, are to succeed, it will be necessary to create a skills development program. One of the surest ways to align strategies and workforce competencies with corporation vision is to create a road map from vision to execution. A skills management process starts in the future and works its way back to the present. An IT skills management process, for example, links the corporation's vision to a technology forecast. The technology forecasts to the required skills, the required skills to the IT skills inventory, the skills inventory to the IT staff's competence levels, and the competence levels to gaps and to the time frame during which those gaps need to be filled. Leadership, team ...