Where an ICT business development manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an ICT business development manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
ICT business development managers increase business opportunities for the organisation and develop strategies that will enhance the smooth running of the organisation, product development and product distribution. They negotiate prices and establish contract terms.
Also known as IT business development manager, ICT commercial development manager, IT commercial development manager, ICT business development managers.
Professionals 32 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: ICT business analysis manager, 31%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An ICT business development manager needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- innovate in ICT communication, collaboration and creativity
- business ICT systems information and communication technologies (icts)
- interpret current data information skills
- decision support systems information and communication technologies (icts)
- collect customer feedback on applications information skills
- perform business analysis information skills
- ICT market business, administration and law
- monitor technology trends information skills
- business strategy concepts business, administration and law
- give live presentation communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an ICT business development manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- ICT business analysis manager 38% covered · difficulty 61.6
- ICT business analyst 36% covered · difficulty 62.1
- eBusiness manager 30% covered · difficulty 68.1
- business consultant 28% covered · difficulty 70.1
- innovation officer 28% covered · difficulty 69.4
- ICT capacity planner 25% covered · difficulty 71.7
- building information modelling consultant 16% covered · difficulty 79.3
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ICT business development manager is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an ICT business development manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.