IT Careers in 2010 - Learn a business

feminazi writes "Business knowledge and domain specific skills are becoming more important to IT workers, according to Computerworld's special report on IT careers in 2010. The most sought-after corporate IT workers in 2010 may not have deep-seated technical skills at all. Traci A. Logan, vice president of information technology and vice provost for academic affairs at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. says, 'That [business skill set] is going to be more important than the straight technical skills they know, because you're going to see a closer marriage between the business and IT.'"

So...

[Duhavid]

You mean that business will stop treating IT
like janitorial staff? Start acting on the ideas
that IT brings to the table?

2010? Bad year to choose.

[krell]

Can't get the idea of Roy Scheider using an Apple //GS (the true technology of the future!) out of my head, along with the damn spinning sand-covered pacman spaceship. Arthur C. Clarke surely would have been rolling in his grave over THAT movie if the damn old coot had died long ago like the other scifi grand masters.

How many?

[Anonymous Coward]

Geez - these IT career planning stories are getting tiresome.

You want to make money? Quit beating around the bush and
just go to law school!

Until push comes to shove.

[khasim]

Sure, what's "most important" is being able to sell. Particularly when the corporate network was just cracked and you have to explain to the CEO why all the clients have been looking at "j00 b33n pwN3d" on your website all morning.

Technical skills? Not so important.

That's "sarcasm" for those of you unable to see it.

Being a good salesman can get you in the door and on the project. But nothing will help if you don't have the tech skills to deliver.

Particularly as more and more of the business is being put on the 'web. The best people will have the tech skills and the business knowledge and the salesmanship skills. But the tech skills are the most important.

Learn a business?

[TrappedByMyself]

What the hell does that mean?

I think we need to start with: "Learn how to communicate"

Hopeless

[rowama]

I'm hopeless and should quit IT. When I read your last sentence ...

IT is just a vehicle to delivering faster, and more effective business drivers.

I visualized IT as a minivan delivering the likes of Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Little E, etc. to their retirement assignments: Driving business executives around.

It's bedtime kiddies.