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SOA: IBM Sees Need for T-Shaped Skills
IBM continues to warn of a Skills Shortage in SOA. Last fall an IBM-sponsored ZapThink survey found that more than half the companies surveyed had less than 25 percent of the skills needed to build out SOA-based enterprise solutions.
In a newer IBM-sponsored survey, similar results are found:
- 56% respondents say a lack of SOA skills is “the #1 Inhibitor” to launching and delivering SOA projects with strong business impact
- 80% of respondents will invest to increase SOA skills in their company this year
- More than 60% of corporate executives invested in SOA-targeted retraining for both IT and Business staffs in the past year
One of IBM’s recommendations for filling the gap is to create staff members that are trained as ‘T-Professionals’. T-Professionals are bridge players that coordinate between IT and Business. Professionals with ‘T-Shaped’ skills are trained to see the big-picture and can help companies attack their problems with an end-to-end process perspective.
The T-Professional helps companies in these areas:
- Foundational – Helps companies create the basis for business agility
- End-To-End – Know how to coordinate across multiple business units
- Transformation – Can capture innovation and creativity to bring about change
- Dynamic Adoption – Respond to Changing Business Conditions
