But not in the way that they are implying in the article.
[i]And the message coming from Gartner Inc. analysts today is that youth matters more than ever in IT, especially as the Web becomes more interactive and collaborative and heads in directions that Baby Boomer-aged IT managers may be ill equipped to lead.[/i]
This is perfectly correct but it doesn't apply to the techs who hold things together but to the people named in the introduction who are responsible for holding Technology back Bill Gates Particularly & Partially Steve Jobs.
After all just how long have there been perfectly good 64 Bit hardware systems around with no software to run on them?
[i]Gartner analysts told the 6,000-plus attendees that companies poised for future growth will be clued into the so-called consumerization of IT, a catch-all term covering the mobile, customizable and heavily interactive technologies those in their 20s now seem to expect.[/i]
Read correctly as [b]Open Source[/b] none of this Propriety junk that is holding back Technological advancement.
[i]Contrast that to senior IT managers, who are likely a "middle aged, sedan-driving, middle income, middle class, middle-of-the-road, midlife-crisis, mid-sized managers from the Midwest, who carry a little bit too much weight around their middles,"[/i]
Which reads as [b]Responsible[/b] and unlikely to kill themselves at the first opportunity given them.
[i]And if being called overweight so soon after breakfast wasn't bad enough, Raskino urged the boomers on hand to plan for their exit. "Plan for succession -- what you need to find, what you need to nurture is fresh talent -- and that talent will be multiskilled, multidisciplined ... and it will take on new roles."[/i]
Which reads as Promote the people who Know and not the Brown Noses who constantly agree with your ideas.
[i]Raskino said Gartner is dubbing this next generation of IT professionals "versatilists."[/i]
This means nothing more that it says they have to do a bit of everything sound familiar?
[i]Terry Epp, senior development manager at the Bank of Montreal, agreed with Gartner analysts about the consumerization of IT and said it's prevalent in financial services with online banking and trading.[/i]
Reads as we are not responsible for the problems it's your fault! We quite often loose your money but it's not our fault. Look at all the young Rouge Traders that there places put out and wonder how these places stay afloat. They are Banks and who's heard of a Bank going broke recently when they are all making obscene profits and still loosing money hand over fist and paying their Senior members of their Boards outlandish Bonuses that would keep most small third world countries in food for a year.
[i]"This is not just about technology, first and foremost, it's about culture -- it's about cultural change," said Bittman, adding that "although this is probably discriminatory, there is a different attitude, at different ages, based on what technology can provide."[/i]
Dam right it's not just about technology what it's really about is how to integrate Technology into Business in a cost effect manner that will work out best for the company. Nothing else matters here.
Unfortunately the new crowd are not taught what's good for business but only the technology so they all lack the knowledge on how to achieve this without spending years of being supervised and taught how to do things that are in the companies best interests.
Over all I have to say [b]An Excellent Article[/b] that has drawn the wrong outcomes from the existing available evidence. To put it simply [b]They messed up the Output and Haven't as yet realised.[/b] :D
Col
