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ERIC Number: ED490127
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jun
Pages: 7
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 7
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A Follow up: Developing Growing Need for Soft-Skills in IT Professionals
Swanson, Dewey A.; Phillips, Julie
Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 37th, Myrtle Beach, SC, June 6-10, 2004
In this paper we follow up "Developing Growing Need for Soft-Skills in IT Professionals," a paper from the 2003 ASCUE Conference. In that paper we examined the need for "soft-skills" by information technology professionals. In the current economic climate, IT outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular. Our Columbus, Indiana Purdue campus has a long history of partnerships with Cummins Inc. In the past two years we have worked with Cummins to develop the Business/Systems Analyst Training program to retool valued IT professionals at Cummins. The focus is on turning Cummins from a traditional IT organization into one that is increasingly based on dealing with offshore outsourcing. The skills required in-house will focus more on the "soft-skills" as Cummins transitions employees from programming to business/system analyst positions. Since presenting our paper last year we have delivered two sessions of the Business/Systems Analyst Training. In this paper we will provide an update with feedback from participants, management and faculty. How effective was the training? Is this a program that other universities can emulate? We will explore those and other issues in this paper. [For complete proceedings, see ED490093.]
Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 1513 Magnolia Drive, Surfside Beach, SC 29574. Tel: 606-218-5308; Fax: 606-218-5184; e-mail: president@ascue.org; Web site: http://www.ascue.org.
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Indiana