September 4th 2007 2007年9月4日
A New Breed of IT Workers一個新品種，它的工人
In the eWeek.com article 在eweek.com文章 IT Workers Second-Guess Career Choice 它的工人第二次猜測的職業選擇 , Deborah Perelman reports a disturbing trend where the IT workers in the US see a bleak future for their career and are discouraging their kids to not pursue IT career. ，德博拉佩雷爾曼報告，一個令人不安的趨勢，而它的工人在美國看到一個暗淡的未來，為他們的職業生涯，並勸阻他們的孩子不能搞它的職業生涯。
Outsourcing, Offshoring, H1B Employees, Commoditization of IT work force are all here to stay, but they are all signs of a dynamic IT industry. Granted older software development skills become less relevant in a hurry. But, is this a new occurrence? Much sought after experts in VB and ASP in late 1990s are now a relic. The employees have always understood that they need to retrain themselves in new emerging technologies constantly. That’s the occupational hazard in IT Industry. Now, what has changed is the nature of new skills that are relevant. ‘Soft’ skills are becoming more important. 外包，外包， h1b僱員，商品化，它的勞動人口都在這裡留下來，但他們所有的跡象都一個動態的資訊科技業。給予老年人的軟件開發技能，成為相關性較低，在匆忙，但，這是一個新的發生呢？得多徵詢後，專家在VB和ASP在上世紀90年代末，現在的遺跡。僱員我們一貫相互理解，他們需要再培訓，自己在新興技術不斷。認為的職業危害，在IT行業，現在有什麼改變的性質是新的技能，都是相關的因素。 『軟』的技能變得更加重要。
Businesses are no longer interested in making sure that the tactical aspect of IT is running smoothly. They don’t want to know if their IT infrastructure scales, if their data is secure. They expect it to happen anyway, just as you expect the lights to go on when you flip on the switch. That’s where the IT is getting “commoditized”. If your skill set is in those areas, you need to get out fast. But, increased globalization has made corporations more vulnerable to competition. The impetus to change and look for the new markets quickly is of highest priority now. Thus, I believe IT now is more relevant to the corporations than before. When organizations talk of ‘agility’, it’s the IT organization that can enable the corporations to be agile. How can you be agile when you do not have ways to make your business processes agile? Throwing the IT project over to the IT department and expect it to meet the business needs is no longer viable today. At the same time IT department cannot go into seclusion and work on a project for few months at a given time. The hypercompetitive environment will make your IT project irrelevant during that time. IT workers now need to collaborate with the other business organizations. This new reality calls for new generation of IT workers. The ‘soft’ skills that are more relevant now are - 企業已不再有興趣在作出肯定的是，戰術方面，這是順利運行。他們不想知道，如果他們的IT基礎設施規模，如果他們的數據是安全，他們期望它發生，無論如何，正如您預期的燈去當您倒裝就切換。認為的地方，這是越來越“商品化” 。如果您的技能是在這些領域，你需要擺脫快，但增加了全球化已使公司更容易受到競爭。動力的變化和尋找新的市場迅速是最高優先。因此 ，我認為它現在是更多的有關該公司比以前當組織的話題， '敏捷' ， 它的IT組織可以使公司要敏捷。你怎能敏捷，當你不有辦法使您的業務流程，敏捷？投擲IT項目交給IT部門，並期望它以滿足業務需要，已不再是可行的今天。在同一時間， IT部門不能進入隔離和工作的一個項目幾個月在某一特定的時間。 hypercompetitive的環境，會使您的IT項目無關，在這段時間，它的工人現在需要合作，與其他商業機構。這一新的現實呼喚新這一代的工人。 『軟』的技能，更為相關的，現在是-
- Comprehend Company’s Business Strategy 理解公司的業務策略
- Understand how the company differentiates its products or services vis-à-vis competition 了解該公司如何區分其產品或服務相對於競爭
- Articulate technical jargon to non IT business people 闡明的技術術語，以非IT業務的人
- Understand TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI of a project 了解控煙辦公室（總擁有成本）和投資回報率的一個項目
- Ability to negotiate and influence others 進行談判的能力和影響他人
I know these new skills can be intimidating to a ‘techie’. The above mentioned skill sets do not limit itself to IT personnel but need to be expanded in other Knowledge Industries like product engineering, R/D etc. Most of us are uncomfortable to collaborate, communicate, influence and negotiate and hence we choose safer ‘engineering’ jobs. ‘We can just do our jobs and go home… Who wants to get involved in company politics…’ that’s the conventional wisdom in the ‘techie’ world. Guess what… we are now in the middle of corporate universe and we need to be like ‘them’. 我知道這些新的技能可以恐嚇，以'高科技' 。上述技能不限制本身的資訊科技人員，但需要擴大在其他知識產業一樣，產品工程的R / D等我們大多數人不舒服協作，溝通，影響力和談判，因此，我們選擇安全的'工程'工作' ，我們就可以做我們的工作和回家…誰希望能在公司所涉及的政治… … '這是傳統的智慧，在'高科技'世界。猜是什麼… …我們現在在中東的企業和宇宙中我們要像'他們' 。
I believe, now is the exciting time for knowledge workers. We can influence the Business Strategy and be relevant to the core of the organization. What other job function would be that exciting? It’sa self fulfilling prophecy when we send out wrong messages to the younger generation to stay away from these fields. America will surely loose competitive edge with this kind of attitude. 我相信，現在是激動人心的時刻的知識工作者，我們可以影響的業務策略及相關的核心組織。什麼其他的工作職能將是令人興奮的呢？ 這是自我實現的預言，當我們發送出錯誤的訊息年輕一代遠離這些領域。美國一定會鬆散的競爭力，與這種態度。
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