Are Non-Technical skills really as important or more important than Technical Skills?

In the first of this three part series, Jim Love, CIO and Chief Digital Office for IT World Canada interviews Mike Rollings, Research VP for Gartner Inc. discuss Skills, Talent and Leadership in the Digital Age. The move to Digital Business requires some fundamentally different skills as the nexus of Cloud, Social, Mobile and Information usher in the Digital Age. These technologies, used together are changing the expectations of the business users on how they work with the IT department. In this new world where non-technical skills grow in importance, organizations are having challenges finding people with the right skills. Mike also reveals why this is not just an IT problem - it’s embedded in our HR and recruiting processes. Organizations not only don’t search for the right talent, they may be turning away highly qualified and desirable people as they recruit tomorrow’s candidates with yesterdays requirements.

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In many ways University's don't teach and develop students on their soft skills. Technical skills tend to be finite, one can be a good technical, engineer but not so much as a manager.