Interview with ACM President Wendy Hall
If you have not already notice, I think the Association for Computing Machinery is the best IT organization there is. Most IT organization are social networking organizations where you have a hard time justifying the membership fee. Well not the ACM.
An interview was done with ACM President Wendy Hall. This is a must listen to because I believe she touched on some very important points. A few of them were:
1. She feels that IT does not get the respect it deserves like other professions.
All I can say is WOW! and AMEN!
2. She feels there needs to be standards and a code of ethics for the IT industry to identify IT professionals. She values degreed IT professionals it seems like from the interview.
Do you need a CS degree to do this stuff? To be honest I kind of wish more emphasis was put on people with degrees from universities in the industry but today a 10 month degree from a technical school will do just fine.
3. She said (paraphasing) "We need more scientists and engineers running companies in the future." She said not CIO or VP of IT, but on the board running the company.
I have been preaching this to everyone I know. In too many companies today, IT is the support arm and not apart of the overall strategy. It should not matter what the industry is, I don't care if it is food service, IT should be apart of the strategy.
Link to the interview. Enjoy!
http://www.stephenibaraki.com/audio/Wendy_Hall.mp3
Until next time...
An interview was done with ACM President Wendy Hall. This is a must listen to because I believe she touched on some very important points. A few of them were:
1. She feels that IT does not get the respect it deserves like other professions.
All I can say is WOW! and AMEN!
2. She feels there needs to be standards and a code of ethics for the IT industry to identify IT professionals. She values degreed IT professionals it seems like from the interview.
Do you need a CS degree to do this stuff? To be honest I kind of wish more emphasis was put on people with degrees from universities in the industry but today a 10 month degree from a technical school will do just fine.
3. She said (paraphasing) "We need more scientists and engineers running companies in the future." She said not CIO or VP of IT, but on the board running the company.
I have been preaching this to everyone I know. In too many companies today, IT is the support arm and not apart of the overall strategy. It should not matter what the industry is, I don't care if it is food service, IT should be apart of the strategy.
Link to the interview. Enjoy!
http://www.stephenibaraki.com/audio/Wendy_Hall.mp3
Until next time...
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