ICT business analysttoICT business development manager
A ICT business analyst already meets 36% of what the ICT business development manager role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.
36%
62.1/ 100
1 Share of the ICT business development manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ICT business analyst profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A ICT business development manager role treats 6 of its required skills as things a ICT business analyst already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- ICT market
- analyse business requirements
- business ICT systems
- business strategy concepts
- decision support systems
- innovation processes
What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 11 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A ICT business development manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ICT business analyst background worth leading with.
- already held business requirements techniques business, administration and law
- already held business ICT systems information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held decision support systems information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held ICT market business, administration and law
- already held business strategy concepts business, administration and law
- already held innovation processes business, administration and law
All 11 carried skills, including the 6 the ICT business development manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 21 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held collect customer feedback on applications required
- required, not held interpret current data required
- required, not held monitor technology trends required
- required, not held perform business analysis required
- required, not held perform market research required
- required, not held seek innovation in current practices required
- required, not held innovate in ICT required
- required, not held give live presentation required
- optional, not held build business relationships optional
- optional, not held communicate with customers optional
- optional, not held manage contracts optional
- optional, not held use different communication channels optional
- required, not held business processes required
- optional, not held ICT capacity planning strategies optional
- optional, not held crowdsourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held insourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held investment analysis optional
- optional, not held outsourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held sales argumentation optional
- required, not held identify new business opportunities required
- optional, not held coordinate technological activities optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a ICT business development manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 innovate in ICT skill · sector specific
- 02 business processes knowledge · cross sector
- 03 collect customer feedback on applications skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 11 skills that carry over
- already held ICT market knowledge
- already held analyse business requirements skill
- already held business ICT systems knowledge
- already held business strategy concepts knowledge
- already held decision support systems knowledge
- already held innovation processes knowledge
- already held business intelligence knowledge
- already held business process modelling knowledge
- already held business requirements techniques knowledge
- already held information extraction knowledge
- already held visual presentation techniques knowledge
11 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held ICT capacity planning strategies optional
- optional, not held coordinate technological activities optional
- optional, not held crowdsourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held insourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held investment analysis optional
- optional, not held outsourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held sales argumentation optional
- optional, not held build business relationships optional
- optional, not held communicate with customers optional
- optional, not held manage contracts optional
- optional, not held use different communication channels optional
26 held skills the ICT business development manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse business processes skill
- not needed by the target role analyse the context of an organisation skill
- not needed by the target role apply change management skill
- not needed by the target role cloud technologies knowledge
- not needed by the target role create business process models skill
- not needed by the target role define technical requirements skill
- not needed by the target role design process skill
- not needed by the target role digital systems knowledge
- not needed by the target role execute analytical mathematical calculations skill
- not needed by the target role identify customer requirements skill
- not needed by the target role identify legal requirements skill
- not needed by the target role implement strategic planning skill
- not needed by the target role information architecture knowledge
- not needed by the target role information categorisation knowledge
- not needed by the target role interact with users to gather requirements skill
- not needed by the target role internal risk management policy knowledge
- not needed by the target role legal requirements of ICT products knowledge
- not needed by the target role manage ICT project skill
- not needed by the target role organisational resilience knowledge
- not needed by the target role product usage risks analysis knowledge
- not needed by the target role propose ICT solutions to business problems skill
- not needed by the target role provide cost benefit analysis reports skill
- not needed by the target role provide user documentation skill
- not needed by the target role systems development life-cycle knowledge
- not needed by the target role translate requirements into visual design skill
- not needed by the target role unstructured data knowledge
7 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held business processes required
- optional, not held ICT capacity planning strategies optional
- optional, not held crowdsourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held insourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held investment analysis optional
- optional, not held outsourcing strategy optional
- optional, not held sales argumentation optional
Other moves recorded from ICT business analyst
- ICT business analysis manager 48% covered · substantial
- ICT consultant 25% covered · career change
- telecommunications analyst 25% covered · career change
- ICT information and knowledge manager 23% covered · career change
- eBusiness manager 21% covered · career change
- artificial intelligence engineer 20% covered · career change
- building information modelling consultant 20% covered · substantial
- ICT resilience manager 18% covered · career change
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.