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16:20 1st October 2009
UK businesses need to use the IT industry if they are to beat the economic downturn and emerge as successful organisations, it has been suggested.
Karen Price, chief executive of e-Skills UK, the IT sector skills council, has claimed that people in IT careers across the UK should begin taking more of a lead in developing their company's future and has argued that IT professionals need to become leaders to help Britain out of the recession.
Writing in Computing magazine, Ms Price pointed out that traditional IT career paths are changing and people in the IT industry need to take advantage of new opportunities and step up to take on new demands.
She added: "Developing the IT leaders of the future is not just about meeting the development needs of today's IT professionals. It is also about ensuring we have future talent."
Putting a greater emphasis on changing the way in which IT training is delivered in the UK could form an integral part of ensuring the country has a pool of talent capable of dealing with the new demands likely to be placed on them in the future.
Becta, the government agency in charge of using technology in learning, has recently launched a consultation on its proposals for changing the way IT courses are taught across the country as part of this exercise to improve the standard of future IT professionals.
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