Managing IT Skills Portfolios: Planning, Acquisition, and Performance Evaluation
- 4h 16m
- Makoto Nakayama, Norma Sutcliffe
- IGI Global
- 2004
Managing IT Skills Portfolios: Planning, Acquisition and Performance Evaluation provides basic terminologies and taxonomy for managing IT skills at the firm and individual levels as well as examines issues regarding IT skills management from different perspectives such as educational, individual, governmental, human resources management and e-commerce perspectives.
Managing IT Skills Portfolios: Planning, Acquisition and Performance Evaluation shows a managerial framework on how IT skills can be effectively managed at the firm and individual levels.
About the Authors
Makoto Nakayama is Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems at DePaul University (USA). He holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from University of Texas at Austin. Prior to moving into academe, he served as a product marketing manager at Novell Japan. He also worked on business planning and operating system developments at Yokogawa Electric Corporation in Tokyo. His current research interests are in IT use in marketing channels and IT skills portfolio management. His papers have appeared in Information & Management, Journal of Information Technology, and proceedings of national conferences.
Norma Sutcliffe is Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems at DePaul University (USA). She holds a PhD as well as an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. With extensive experience in industry, Dr. Sutcliffe has been a consultant for many Fortune 500 firms in evaluating IT needs, IT implementations, and IT strategies. She has worked as systems developer on mainframe and client/server systems as well. Her current research interests are in IT- enabled organizational change, IT leadership behavior, and IT skills portfolio management. Her papers have appeared in Information & Management and proceedings of national conferences.
In this Book
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Managing IT Skills Portfolios—Planning, Acquisition and Performance Evaluation
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Chapter I: Skills, Management of Skills, and IT Skills Requirements
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An Approach for Managing an IT Skills Portfolio
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Challenges for Managing IT Skills Portfolio for E-Business
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Skills and the Worker—Let’s Get Real
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Optimizing IT Skills Management Initiatives
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Chapter VI: Government Involvement in Skills Issues
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Japanese IT-Skill Dilemma
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Chapter VIII: Eliminating the Weakest Link—Leveraging Human Capital with Strategic Alliances in IT Outsourcing Supply Chains
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Chapter IX: An Exploration of the Value of Information Systems Certification—The Perspective of the Human Resource Professional*
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Extreme Interviewing to Find Team Oriented Programmers*
