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    Tomorrows IT Work Force: Tech-Savvy, Business-Focused

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    October 9, 2006
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      ORLANDO—Were in the midst of a work force sea change, as the vast crop of Baby Boomers, now dominant among the IT work force, retires, to be replaced by tech-savvy twenty-somethings over the next decade.

      That was the message voiced by several Gartner analysts Oct. 9 at the consultancys annual Symposium and IT Expo here.

      As technology-minded youngsters take their place in corporate America, including the nations IT departments, they will bring with them a passion and an expectation for the latest and greatest in technology.

      How businesses respond to these high expectations will go a long way to determining their ability to attract good people and thereby retain a competitive technology edge, said Gartner analyst John Mahoney in a presentation.

      /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here to read more about the next-generation IT work force.

      If companies IT operations are heavily outsourced so that they cant respond with leading edge systems, theyll be at a disadvantage in attracting the best and the brightest, said Gartner analyst Linda Cohen in an interview.

      Mahoney predicted that the IT professional of tomorrow will have a blend of skills from different disciplines and will not be purely focused on technology.

      “By 2012, people with business or business-technology hybrid experience will take at least 75 percent of strategic IT decisions,” said Mahoney, noting that the current percentage is less than 40 percent.

      Contrary to the views of some, Mahoney said that by 2012, the contribution of IT to corporate success will be cited in the top three success factors by at least half of the top-performing companies.

      Conversely, IT barriers will be cited in the top three failure factors by at least half the lowest performers, he added.

      /zimages/4/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, reviews and analysis on IT management from CIOInsight.com.

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      Stan Gibson is Executive Editor of eWEEK. In addition to taking part in Ziff Davis eSeminars and taking charge of special editorial projects, his columns and editorials appear regularly in both the print and online editions of eWEEK. He is chairman of eWEEK's Editorial Board, which received the 1999 Jesse H. Neal Award of the American Business Press. In ten years at eWEEK, Gibson has served eWEEK (formerly PC Week) as Executive Editor/eBiz Strategies, Deputy News Editor, Networking Editor, Assignment Editor and Department Editor. His Webcast program, 'Take Down,' appeared on Zcast.tv. He has appeared on many radio and television programs including TechTV, CNBC, PBS, WBZ-Boston, WEVD New York and New England Cable News. Gibson has appeared as keynoter at many conferences, including CAMP Expo, Society for Information Management, and the Technology Managers Forum. A 19-year veteran covering information technology, he was previously News Editor at Communications Week and was Software Editor and Systems Editor at Computerworld.

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