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IT CEOs: Employees are important for growth
Posted: November 05, 2010
According to new numbers from the recently published IT Growth Barometer 2010, employees are on track to become really attractive for ICT companies - a focus Øresund IT's project BrandIT is concerned with. The report shows that 29 percent of the IT CEOs in Denmark see recruiting and maintaining as the biggest challenge for the company’s growth over the next few years. The results are based on answers from more than 300 IT CEOs.
- It is a clear proof that the management of employees in knowledge-intensive companies is an extremely important issue regardless the state of the market. The evolution is so significant and it also bear witness to the companies belief to that the crisis has reached is turning- point, says the developer of IT growth barometer, Kim Gerner, partner and CEO of Deloitte's division of technology, media and telecommunications.
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New focus
These results are exactly in line with what the first phase of the BrandIT project shows as a tendency. The ICT cluster in the Øresund Region has experienced growth during the last couple of years. To make sure this success will continue through the expected exit period of the financial crisis, the next step of the project will put emphasis on attracting and maintaining not only employees but also students and researchers.
The IT Growth Barometer shows that 29 percent see recruitment and maintaining as the biggest challenge to growth, 72 percent of those expect an increase in the number of employees during the next years.
- Previously it was a problem to absorb many new employees. The next challenge was that we had too many and maybe not quite qualified employees. Now the industry has come to the point where the challenge is to maintain and recruit the best qualified labor in a time where some companies must still keep a sharp eye on costs, explains Kim Gerner.
- It is a great and difficult task. Especially because it is often the most qualified who look for another job if things do not work perfectly. And if the brightest employees leave the company, it is bad, he says.
It will take a great effort to overcome this challenge, but it is necessary in order to keep the ICT cluster in the Øresund Region competitive. Øresund IT's initiatives of the next phase of BrandIT will be a step in the right direction.
Source: Computerworld, BrandIT 2010
