2014 SIMPosium Panel The IT Workforce: Demand, Supply, the Gap, and Tactics 1.

2014 SIMPosium Panel

The IT Workforce:

Demand, Supply, the Gap, and Tactics

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Panelists

Jana Markowitz is the Director of STEM Outreach for SIM and a member of the Memphis Chapter.

Jack Beckeris a Professor of MIS at the University of North Texas. He is a SIM DFW member.

Mary Sumneris a Professor of MIS at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. She is a member of SIM St. Louis.

Andrew Jacksonis the President of BravoTech, an IT staffing and recruiting company. He is a member of SIM Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)

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What is the Demand Side for IT?

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Quotes from Computerworld book

“Information technology plays a pervasive and critical role in driving business capabilities and enabling corporate strategies. In order for American industry to sustain its renowned capacity to innovate, it must have a workforce equipped to develop and apply future generations of advanced information technologies.”

James Nanton, Senior VP and CIO, Hanesbrands, Inc.

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“In the past few years I have hired many deeply technical people. The vast majority of resumes for my most technical jobs come from graduates of colleges in India and China. It is clear to me that we are not preparing American students with the skills that high-tech employers deem necessary.”

John Halamka, CIO, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center and Professor, Harvard Business School


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“Success in IT requires a mastery of the fundamentals underpinned by strong C skills: critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. Our best people apply critical thinking to determine how emerging technologies can be harnassed to deliver value for clients, ever mindful of changing marketplace and business requirements.”

Frank B. Modruson, CIO, Accenture


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Data from CareerBuilder.com

Based on CareerBuilder.com Real-time Job Openings in Texas

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US Bureau of Labor Statistics data (2 month delay in reporting)

(Becker & Dake, ongoing study)

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Andrew’s Top 10 IT Skills (Computerworld)

1. Developers (.Net and JAVA)

2. Business Analysts and Project Managers

3. Help desk and desk side support

4. Business Intelligence

5. Mobil developers Android and IOS

6. Infrastructure (Security, Systems Admins, Networking)

7. QA Test manual and automated

8. SQL Developers and SharePoint Developers

9. DBA’s

10. CRM (MS Dynamics and Salesforce)

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What is the Supply Side?

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Point:

“We are not finding the IT graduates with the skill sets we need—both in quality and quantity.”

Corporate IT Director

What skills and knowledge are IT industry leaders looking for in MIS/IT graduates?

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Point:

“Academic professionals are out-of-step with workforce demands. I found the same thing at a STEM summit where we were working with a number of educators. It was discouraging to hear from them that they were running the same IT or IS programs that they were running 20 or 30 years ago.”

SIM Chapter President (industry)

Are MIS/IT programs generating graduates with the skills that are needed?

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Point:

“Tackling the many challenges of IT—from sourcing to funding to business alignment to arduous implementations and thankless support—requires having the best IT team possible in your corner.”

SIM Management Council member (industry)

Required Skills Being Taught?

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MIS & CIS Terminal Degrees Awarded-- IS World Faculty Directory

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Retire by2020

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First Cycle: UNT ITDS DepartmentUndergraduate IS Majors 1982-2006

UNT raised Out of StateTuition by $1,500/semFor Non-US Students

BCIS Dept. Raised Min. GPA to 2.75 from 2.50 out of 4.0

Dot.Com Bust!

“Constrained Growth”

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The STEM Pipeline is Leaky

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How do we solve the problem?

Tactics:

Bridging the Gap

Recruiting/Retaining IT People

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It is not just the tech titans – every organization needs IT Professionals.

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Wearable Technology Tech Togs, Geek Chic

Everpurse – the Purse that Charges your Phone ---Includes charging mat to recharge the purse

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AIS Unpublished IS Enrollment Data 64 Universities World Wide (2001, 2006, 2011)

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SIM Memphis Teen Tech Camp

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SIM IT Career Day at U of Memphis

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How can SIM help?

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• SIM Chapter activities: SIM Scholarships for IT/IS majors in college (primarily) Advisory Boards/Advisory Councils (high schools – colleges) Tech Camps (high schools/middle schools) Internships, Projects, Speakers, Career Shadowing Robotics Competitions (high schools/middle schools)

• Innovative programs that are working: Teen Tech Camp “Cool” role models; College students, Dynamic faculty mentors,

CIOs, female IS/IT leaders Maker projects – Robotics Competitions, writing mobile apps,

building a computer from components then comparing to a Raspberry Pi computer-on-a-card

What partnerships between academic programs and IT leaders in industry are working to bridge the gap?

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• SIM Portland – pairs a SIM member with each of 16+ annual scholarship recipients to speak at Middle Schools about degrees and careers in IT http://simpdx.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=647913&module_id=126451

• SIM Chicago – works through the Illinois Technology Foundation with the goal to “bridge the gap between industry and academia”http://illinoistechfoundation.org/itf-programs/it-leadership/

• SIM Dallas partners with Harvard to share the Worldwide Telescope Project with middle school students http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

• SIM Indianapolis sponsors an “Award for Aspirations in Computing” banquet (pgm designed by NCWIT, UC Boulder and UT Austin) https://www.ncwit.org/programs-campaigns/aspirations-computing

• SIM Memphis outreach includes IT Career Day at U of M, MIS Scholarships at 2 schools and collaborations with 4 girls’schools – providing Career Panels, role models, hands-on workshops, workshops for college counselors http://www.simnet.org/?MEM_Comm_Outreach

What partnerships between academic programs and IT leaders in industry are working to bridge the gap?

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STEM Solutions ConferenceK-12 and Beyond

• Stopping the Leaky Pipeline – Ain’t Happen’n’

• Some Successful Initiatives in Grades 5-6 to 12:– Project Lead the Way [PTLW]©

• An approved curriculum model for STEM courses

– Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics

– Available NOW for Texas School systems

» Keller ISD, Denton ISD, others• Opportunity for SIMI to partner/volunteer as mentors here:

– Corporate/Professional Organization/Public Partnerships

– Many businesses do! Tata Consulting, Inc. has committed to donate 20 hrs per year per Employee

– LearningBlade from Thinking Media

• Online Curriculum (e.g., Khan Academy)

• Could Pair up with PLTW; or WWT could be added.27

K-12 Solutions & Beyond

• Successful Initiatives in Grades 5-6 to 12 (continued): The Next Generation of Digital Education: Discovery Education

Channel World Wide Telescope [WWT] Microsoft (Our Project fits in here)

• DFW SIM Chapter in concert with WWT Ambassadors Program at Harvard University

Robotics Competitions!! Many great ones! First Robotics, VEX, etc.

• Communications & PR: Attracting & Selling Youth Will SOON Promote our successes on STEMConnector.org

• Teaching the STEM Teachers in K-12 UTeach Program; Fundamental GAP in Process

• Common Core Curriculum—An Emerging National Standard

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What is the last word?

• Focus on retaining current IT people (Andrew).

• Work with the schools to provide IT career awareness.

• Engage with academic professionals within your SIM Chapters (and recruit academics if you don’t have any.)

• Bridge the gap between theory and practice in IT.

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