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2/3 of CIOs’ time is spent on nontechnical issues

IT professionals who have acumen in diverse business areas but whose IT skills are noncertified are bringing in bigger salaries on average than their certified counterparts, according to Foote Partners recent research which studied 74.000 IT professionals in US and Canada. “IT professionals today have to be routinely knowledgeable about a whole lot of things that have to do with their employers’ industry, customers and products, enough to take a strategic as well as tactical role in growing the business,” report concludes.

Similar conclusions came from Society for Information Management’s last week report, where CIOs and IT professionals surveyed ranked aligning IT with business goals, building business skills, developing business process management and deploying business intelligence as their top concerns in 2007. CIOs spend two-thirds of their time on nontechnical issues, and the shift towards business awareness is visible from executive offices down to administrators ‘working in the IT trenches’.

See related posting here: First rule of IT: business knowledge before technical!