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February 7, 2005

Metadata Skills Required

In the past, corporations built their Information Technology organization around two primary skill categories: technical and professional. Technical skills included the specific skills required to design, develop, or operate systems which included Oracle, Java, AS/400, etc. Professional skills focused on ensuring the right fit, communication, management, leadership, and all of those HRish like qualities. Now a third skill category has emerged and will eventually (if not already) take center stage in the requirements of hiring technology staff: information skills. What are information skills? How do we hire for, promote on, manage with, and evaluate on these new skills? Are managers who have been trained to judge off project plans, task sheets, and commitments made 12 months in advance now going to evolve to information managers? Does anyone know what questions to ask an interviewee when hiring today for a metadata job?

Posted by Todd at February 7, 2005 5:37 PM