IT's No. 1 Asset: You

A decade ago, as an editor at InformationWeek, I began to explore information technology employment and workplace trends, and discovered that no one—not even the government—reported an IT unemployment rate. With advice from a Bureau of Labor Statistics and other economists, I developed a formula to determine the IT unemployment rate that served as a basis for many stories I wrote for InformationWeek and later for CIO Insight.

But IT employment (or unemployment) isn’t just about the numbers. IT’s most important assets are the human ones, the executives, managers and staffers who make up the profession. The character of the IT workforce has changed in the past decades, and this blog will track those changes and predict where the profession will head.