Skillsmart Retail seeks to identify the online workforce of the future


Forrás: InternetRetailing
Szerző: Sarah Clark


"Creative, world-aware and business-savvy IT workers are needed for the next wave of growth in online commerce, say the Sector Skills Councils.

The growth of online commerce is creating a need for a new kind of creative, world-aware and business-savvy IT worker, able to work more closely with commercial colleagues, say the authors of a new report 'The impact of online trading: understanding its effects on occupations and skills within the UK's consumer facing business sectors.'

"We've uncovered a take on IT that is very different from that conveyed on shows such as The IT Crowd," says Ian Wheeler, research manager at Skillsmart Retail, who led the project on behalf of six Sector Skills Councils. "This means that business people must be much more knowledgeable about IT and IT workers need to show that they not only have the technological expertise to deliver these results, but also the creative flair and business knowledge to do so," he continued." ... >>