Comments on: Are IT skills lacking or are just underutilised in the Caribbean?

By: kamutula

kamutula — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 09:10:46 +0000

The other factor could be that in a lot of business organisations especially those traditional in non-IT as core business ( eg agricultural processing ), IT along with its skill set requirements are rarely considered as significant to their overall strategy.

An immediate pointer to this is usually where the person in charge of IT is placed in the organisational hierarchy. Routinely, in such organisations the IT guy would be reporting to the Finance person or the Operations person.

When you see this symptom in any given organisation just know that here IT is not considered as a business strategy builder and enabler. Consequently, the skill sets will be consigned to the same fate.

By: Michele Marius

Michele Marius — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:34:48 +0000

In reply to Carlton Samuels.

Hmm, that is indeed a problem for which they might not be an easy solution. At the root, businesses might be trivializing IT/ICT and so while they might be prepared to invest – to some degree – in equipment and maintenance, they may not appreciate the larger ecosystem in which IT/ICT affects their business

By: Carlton Samuels

Carlton Samuels — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 23:27:01 +0000

The real problem is moot Caribbean businesses don’t want to pay for the skills they need. As to corporate advisory services, it is a major challenge to get paid. The industry practice is to provide it gratis to favour solution selling and maintenance,