RecordMove

ICT capacity planner to ICT business development manager

An ICT capacity planner already meets 25% of what the ICT business development manager role asks for. The move turns on 13 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional

From ICT capacity planner

Distant match

To ICT business development manager

10 You already bring

13 Still to learn

32 Skills in the target role2

Learning distance Substantial retraining

71.7/ 100

adjacentmoderatesubstantialcareer change

1 How much of what an ICT business development manager is expected to do is already part of an ICT capacity planner’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the ICT business development manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

An ICT business development manager role treats 3 of its required skills as things an ICT capacity planner already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

analyse business requirements
collect customer feedback on applications
perform business analysis

What stands in the way is 13 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An ICT business development manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an ICT capacity planner background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area

already held ICT capacity planning strategies business, administration and law
already held crowdsourcing strategy business, administration and law
already held insourcing strategy business, administration and law
already held outsourcing strategy business, administration and law
already held collect customer feedback on applications information skills
already held perform business analysis information skills

All 10 carried skills, including the 3 the ICT business development manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 22 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier

01 business, administration and law 4 required, 4 supplementary

still to learn ICT market required
still to learn innovation processes required
still to learn business processes required
still to learn business strategy concepts required

optional, not held business requirements techniques optional
optional, not held investment analysis optional
optional, not held sales argumentation optional
optional, not held business intelligence optional

02 information skills 4 required

still to learn interpret current data required
still to learn monitor technology trends required
still to learn perform market research required
still to learn seek innovation in current practices required

03 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 required, 3 supplementary

still to learn innovate in ICT required
still to learn give live presentation required

optional, not held build business relationships optional
optional, not held communicate with customers optional
optional, not held manage contracts optional

04 information and communication technologies (icts) 2 required, 1 supplementary

still to learn business ICT systems required
still to learn decision support systems required

optional, not held information extraction optional

05 management skills 1 required

still to learn identify new business opportunities required

06 arts and humanities 1 supplementary

optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries an ICT business development manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 10 skills that carry over

Skill Type

already held analyse business requirements skill
already held collect customer feedback on applications skill
already held perform business analysis skill
already held ICT capacity planning strategies knowledge
already held business process modelling knowledge
already held coordinate technological activities skill
already held crowdsourcing strategy knowledge
already held insourcing strategy knowledge
already held outsourcing strategy knowledge
already held use different communication channels skill

9 supplementary skills, helpful but not required

Skill to pick up Tier

optional, not held business requirements techniques optional
optional, not held information extraction optional
optional, not held investment analysis optional
optional, not held sales argumentation optional
optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
optional, not held build business relationships optional
optional, not held business intelligence optional
optional, not held communicate with customers optional
optional, not held manage contracts optional

38 held skills the ICT business development manager role does not ask for

Skill Type

not needed by the target role ICT infrastructure knowledge
not needed by the target role ICT process quality models knowledge
not needed by the target role ICT security standards knowledge
not needed by the target role LDAP knowledge
not needed by the target role LINQ knowledge
not needed by the target role MDX knowledge
not needed by the target role N1QL knowledge
not needed by the target role SPARQL knowledge
not needed by the target role XQuery knowledge
not needed by the target role administer ICT system skill
not needed by the target role apply company policies skill
not needed by the target role carry out statistical forecasts skill
not needed by the target role cloud technologies knowledge
not needed by the target role create database diagrams skill
not needed by the target role create solutions to problems skill
not needed by the target role deploy ICT systems skill
not needed by the target role design database scheme skill
not needed by the target role design process skill
not needed by the target role develop financial statistics reports skill
not needed by the target role ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards skill
not needed by the target role execute ICT audits skill
not needed by the target role forecast workload skill
not needed by the target role implement a virtual private network skill
not needed by the target role improve business processes skill
not needed by the target role labour legislation knowledge
not needed by the target role perform ICT troubleshooting skill
not needed by the target role perform project management skill
not needed by the target role perform resource planning skill
not needed by the target role plan ICT capacity skill
not needed by the target role plan migration to cloud skill
not needed by the target role provide ICT consulting advice 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 query languages knowledge
not needed by the target role resource description framework query language knowledge
not needed by the target role statistical analysis system software knowledge
not needed by the target role systems development life-cycle knowledge
not needed by the target role use scripting programming skill

12 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier

still to learn ICT market required
still to learn business ICT systems required
still to learn decision support systems required
still to learn innovation processes required
still to learn business processes required
still to learn business strategy concepts required
optional, not held business requirements techniques optional
optional, not held information extraction optional
optional, not held investment analysis optional
optional, not held sales argumentation optional
optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
optional, not held business intelligence optional

Index

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FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can an ICT capacity planner become an ICT business development manager?

Yes, and it is a substantial move. An ICT capacity planner already covers 25% of what an ICT business development manager is expected to do: 10 skills carry over, 3 of which the ICT business development manager role treats as required.

What skills does an ICT capacity planner need to become an ICT business development manager?

13 required skills are missing, plus 9 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by business, administration and law. The single most important is ICT market.

How hard is the move from ICT capacity planner to ICT business development manager?

Its learning distance is 71.7 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

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.