Who let finance people into the computer center?

I downloaded one of those 'free' salary surveys.  Of course, the Computerworld surveys offer more information and greater detail.  Search this site for the best information.

I haven't been blogging for a bit of time.  I just started the programming class I teach.  School started last week, and I prepared lesson plans and syllabi, as I have for the past five years.  I teach business and finance majors Visual Basic .Net at a University, one that requires these people to have a programming class.

This confuses the students, who seem amazed that they must become Poindexters, er, nerds.  I've asked past students to research IT jobs.  There is a lot of pent up demand for IT skills, despite coding being done worldwide.  That's when it hits them:  IT skills are part of standard business process.  What used to be the job of the glass room guru, is now something all business professionals must know.  It's not as much about reports and computers and projections and all that.  No, we're all involved with 'info-wrangling', partner.

In the same way that individuals must now manage their own spreadsheets, business professionals must grow increasingly familiar with other IT tasks.  There is simply too much IT work, er, just plain ol' business work to do.  Accomplishing the new tasks will require business majors to get a little more involved with what were once IT-only processes.

To you readers, it's Computerworld.  To me, as I see business professionals stretched into IT roles, it's a source of business process improvement.

jT