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Is there a serious crisis/weakness in the United States technology management talent pool?
In terms of technology management and leadership, are we in crisis mode in the US as we find more and more tech leaders and managers lack the fundamental skills to run organizations? A good example of this type of issue is the number of new CIO's that are recruited and placed into IT organizations without any technology education or experience.
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Yes, its bad. I'm not to sure about the education issue but I think that the biggest issues facing IT businesses are security, reliability, and privacy. And most managers don't know enough. I once ran across an unencrypted credit card processing page on comptia.org's website. Their a certification company that writes the Security+ Exam & issues the creditials. After two weeks of writting emails back and forth to tech staff I gave up. Brian Krebs at the wsj.com looked into the issue and they took notice. But the upper level IT manager still refused to either admit there had been a problem or he was getting a snow job by his tech staff. Only after six months when I ran across the same problem and he saw it for himself did he admit their was a problem... and I'm pretty sure somebody got canned. But there's Credit card companies and phone companies lossing data left and right and all I can figure is the managers just don't know IT. I mean the Pentagon this year lost nearly 4 terabytes of data on a military project. I mean we're in trouble.
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