Table 1Transition record

innovation officertoICT business development manager

A 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.

From innovation officer

28%

Overlap1

To ICT business development manager

6 Skills carried over

10 Required, not held

69.4 Difficulty2

Career overlap Distant match

28%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

69.4/ 100

Easy adjacentmoderatesubstantialcareer change Hard

1 Share of the ICT business development manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the innovation officer 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

Why this move works

A ICT business development manager role treats 6 of its required skills as things a innovation officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

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. 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 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 would need to learn

The 26 missing skills fall into 6 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.

Skill to acquire Tier

01 information skills 6 required

required, not held analyse business requirements required
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

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

required, not held business ICT systems required
required, not held decision support systems required

optional, not held information extraction optional

03 business, administration and law 1 required, 9 supplementary

required, not held 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

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

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 a 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 acquire 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 acquire Tier

required, not held business ICT systems required
required, not held decision support systems required
required, not held 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

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.