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Top Jobs For Stem: Big Data, It Product Management
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There could be up to 19 million new technology- and engineering-related jobs created worldwide over the next 15 years, according to a recent Corporate Executive Board (CEB) report. The report highlighted seven core technology and engineering functions that will experience growth driven by vendors and corporate information technology (IT) organizations.
The Big Data talent pool will increase more than 500 percent by 2030, which would make it the second-most popular science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) field if the prediction holds true. "Over the last few years we have seen a shift in corporate IT budget allocations away from traditional process automation systems, such as [enterprise resource planning], toward spending in areas such as analytics," says CEB managing director Andrew Horne. He predicts "changes in hiring as companies need more experts in areas who can structure and interpret big data."
Product management also is one of the seven fastest-growing fields. The report notes that product management is increasingly deployed to manage internal operations and IT's role within the corporate structure. "By offering products and services, rather than technologies, IT makes it easier for the rest of the organization to understand what they get from IT, and creates an environment when product plans can be quickly updated as business needs change," Horne says.
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