The U.S. Technology Skills Gap: What Every Technology Executive Must Know to Save America's Future, + Website

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Writing a book is not an easy task, nor is it done in isolation. During the six years it took me to research and write The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, there were thousands of people I spoke with individually about the topic or exchanged ideas with through my columns in CIO magazine and on CIO.com. Although I cannot possibly mention them all by name, their ideas and recommendations have made their way into the pages of the book.

Some people, however, do deserve individual acknowledgment for their contributions.

For her guidance, recommendations, and patience during the editing phase of the project, I want to thank Stacey Rivera, my development editor at John Wiley & Sons. Thanks also to Tim Burgard, my acquisitions editor at John Wiley & Sons for his support and encouragement, which made this book a reality. And thanks to Kimberly Monroe-Hill, senior production editor at Wiley, and Judith Antonelli, my copyeditor, who molded my words into the book you are about to read.

I must thank my friend Geoff Smith, the former deputy chief information officer at Procter & Gamble, for inviting me to a workforce development conference in the middle of the winter in 2007; that’s where I had the seminal idea to write this book. And even though I have never met them, Titus Galama and James Hosek, two economists from the Rand Corporation, deserve my thanks for introducing me to the fascinating story of Mitsutomo Yuasa, which is a central theme throughout the book.1

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