Career Overlap Transition record
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Innovation officer to ICT business development manager

An innovation officer already meets 28% of what the ICT business development manager role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From innovation officer
28 % overlap
Distant match
To ICT business development manager
6 You already bring
10 Still to learn
32 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Substantial retraining

69.4/ 100

1 How much of what an ICT business development manager is expected to do is already part of an innovation officer’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 6 of its required skills as things an innovation officer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • ICT market
  • business processes
  • identify new business opportunities
  • innovate in ICT
  • innovation processes
  • seek innovation in current practices

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

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 6 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 innovation officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held innovate in ICT communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held ICT market business, administration and law
  • already held innovation processes business, administration and law
  • already held business processes business, administration and law
  • already held seek innovation in current practices information skills
  • already held identify new business opportunities management skills

All 6 carried skills, including the 6 the ICT business development manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 26 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 information skills 6 required
  • still to learn analyse business requirements required
  • still to learn collect customer feedback on applications required
  • still to learn interpret current data required
  • still to learn monitor technology trends required
  • still to learn perform business analysis required
  • still to learn perform market research required
02 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
03 business, administration and law 1 required, 9 supplementary
  • still to learn business strategy concepts required
  • optional, not held ICT capacity planning strategies optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held business requirements techniques 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 business intelligence optional
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 4 supplementary
  • 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
  • optional, not held use different communication channels optional
05 arts and humanities 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
06 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held coordinate technological activities 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 6 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT market knowledge
  • already held business processes knowledge
  • already held identify new business opportunities skill
  • already held innovate in ICT skill
  • already held innovation processes knowledge
  • already held seek innovation in current practices skill
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held ICT capacity planning strategies optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held business requirements techniques optional
  • optional, not held coordinate technological activities optional
  • optional, not held crowdsourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held information extraction 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 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
  • optional, not held use different communication channels optional
17 held skills the ICT business development manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise on patents skill
  • not needed by the target role carry out strategic research skill
  • not needed by the target role collaborate with engineers skill
  • not needed by the target role consult with industry professionals skill
  • not needed by the target role define technology strategy skill
  • not needed by the target role develop business plans skill
  • not needed by the target role emergent technologies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role engineering processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify potential markets for companies skill
  • not needed by the target role implement procurement of innovation skill
  • not needed by the target role improve business processes skill
  • not needed by the target role keep updated on innovations in various business fields skill
  • not needed by the target role product life-cycle knowledge
  • not needed by the target role promote innovative infrastructure design skill
  • not needed by the target role promote open innovation in research skill
  • not needed by the target role risk management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use consulting techniques skill
14 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 business ICT systems required
  • still to learn decision support systems required
  • still to learn business strategy concepts required
  • optional, not held ICT capacity planning strategies optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held business requirements techniques optional
  • optional, not held crowdsourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held information extraction 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 visual presentation techniques optional
  • optional, not held business intelligence optional
Index

Other moves recorded from innovation officer

Full index of moves from innovation officer

FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can an innovation officer become an ICT business development manager?

Yes, and it is a substantial move. An innovation officer already covers 28% of what an ICT business development manager is expected to do: 6 skills carry over, 6 of which the ICT business development manager role treats as required.

What skills does an innovation officer need to become an ICT business development manager?

10 required skills are missing, plus 16 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is business ICT systems.

How hard is the move from innovation officer to ICT business development manager?

Its learning distance is 69.4 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.