Nowhere is the importance of people more evident than with technology professionals, or “techies.” Techies are the heroes of the New Economy: they influence the spending of $1 trillion of annual purchases; they are mission-critical for any organization; and they are in extremely short supply. In fact, there are currently 700,000 open IT jobs, or one-third of the total of all IT jobs, with the shortage expected to more than double in the next five years. Compounding the complexity of dearth of IT professionals is that Moore’s Law is alive and well making IT skills obsolete at the blink of an eye. Fast-forward the clock five years and,.
