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Staff shortages may have implications for outsourcing
A shortage of qualified IT staff is creating problems for businesses, it has been revealed, and many may turn to IT outsourcing as a result.
Research conducted by the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) found that 60 per cent of the executives surveyed consider a lack of IT staff to be an issue - up from 35 per cent in 2005.
The implications of this are that service delivery issues are now the second most common problem in businesses, according to over 50 per cent of those who responded to the poll.
This is not helped by the fact that even those people who are employed in IT are poorly trained, over a third of executives said.
One of the ways of solving this issue would be to outsource, as highlighted in the National Outsourcing Association's recent report which exposed that the number of IT students had fallen by 50 per cent over the past five years.
Further results of the ITGI study include the finding that 36 per cent think the connections between business and IT departments are one of average, poor or very poor.
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