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An 8 page summary of two chapter from Jerry N. Luftman's Managing the Information Technology Resource (2004), a textbook for IT professionals. Chapters 9 and 10 are addressed. No additional sources cited.
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decades, and IT professionals rode out the wave of the dot-com debacle quite nicely. Luftman explains why there is a continuing high demand for IT skills, even in the face
of economic downturns, but points out that an important factor in IT strategy is to understand the skills required by business needs. From this beginning, Luftman further explores the
market for IT professionals and, also, precisely what these professionals are seeking in regards to a position. This section indicates that IT is often a stressful, intense profession, but that,
the majority of IT professionals feel that they have job security and enjoy good communication with management. Features that are typical of the IT environment are intrinsic to
the complexity of IT resource management. There is an omnipresent pressure that is geared toward the mastery of new technology, which is counterbalanced by the need of organizations to maintain
traditional IT skills and knowledge, which accompanies the requirement for "long-term maintenance and support" of existing systems (Luftman 240). Reports from the government concerning the future of IT reveal that
this is one of the countrys fastest growing professions. The top five jobs in regards to percentage of growth over a ten year period are all IT professionals: computer engineer,
computer support specialist, system analyst, database administrator and desktop publishing specialist. In order to qualify as an IT professional today necessitates having command of a wide variety of business
and technological skills (Luftman 242). The author goes on to list the general management skills that an employer would expect from a graduate at the masters level in business administration
(Luftman 243) and he also expounds on the technological skills that would be required by a manager in the information systems area (244). This leads into a more detailed discussion
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