IT transformation means one thing: New IT job skills needed

I found it amusing/disturbing during the NFL player lockout that players were worried about making ends meet. Many players should certainly learn new job skills for when their playing days end, but their worries are nothing compared with everyday working people with mortgages, kids in college and retirement looming.

In the information technology industry, however, worries may be justified if professionals don’t start planning now. IT job skills are changing — not because technology is changing, but because of “IT transformation,” because of the way companies are using technology and IT departments.

Our package on IT transformation outlines where we are in this process, and what to prepare for in the years to come. Service architect, technology broker and integration specialist are just some of the new IT functions companies will need, according to the Corporate Executive Board.

The change we are seeing is real. IT pros will never be locked out of a job, but they may be out of a job if preparations aren’t being made to develop new roles and specialties now.