Does IT really have recession-busting powers?
By Maggie Holland,
While it’s not a dead cert that the IT industry has the power to lift the UK out of the recession, it is clear that the tech community boasts a great deal of clout and is capable of influencing and driving change in a number of areas.
[a href="http://www.itpro.co.uk/613078/focus-on-innovation" target="_blank"]Innovation/a] is a key economic driver and it is more pronounced in the tech world than any other industry, bar perhaps engineering and the sciences.
Some may mock this industry, suggesting the realms of databases, datacentres, storage and the like are dull and boring. But, perhaps they are just a tad jealous that ours is an industry that is ripe with talent and modest enough to fail to realise just how good it actually is until it really matters.
IT industry at large, act now: Your country needs you.
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"You don’t need to have come right the way through a pure IT background to be the senior responsible owner for a large project or programme."
Unfortunately, it's this type of thinking by Lesley Hume, Director of Government IT Profession (whatever that means) that has saddled us with the IT failures of the recent past. Those in charge, not having the IT knowledge to make independent, informed decisions, rolling over for the big IT players including the likes of Microsoft. It will take us some time to unravel this mess that we are now in.
By 6tricky9 on Saturday Oct 10