I-Manager stats
Top 10 challenges
What are the top technical challenges of doing business over the Internet?
- Security
- Building an adequate infrastructure
- Data access
- Back-end systems integration
- Bandwidth
- Network connectivity
- Uptime
- Data mining/data warehousing
- Systems that don't scale
Content distribution
What are the top management challenges of doing business over the Internet?
- Budgets
- Project deadlines
- Keeping up with technology
- Privacy issues
- High cost of capital expenditures
- Unrealistic management expectations
- Training
- Reaching new customers
- Improving customer ordering/service
- Employee retention/hiring
Top 10 trends
- Wireless
- Migration to XML
- Bigger bandwidth/broadband
- e-CRM
- Peer-to-peer communications
- Real-time access to information from anywhere
- Streaming on demand
- Voice services
- Personalisation
- Improved user interfaces
I-Manager careers
Two-thirds of I-managers come from outside computer/communications fields*
- Information technology/systems: 23.1%
- Customer service: 11.4%
- Communications/networking: 9.8%
- Marketing: 8.6%
- Sales: 8.0%
- Business development: 7.7%
- Manufacturing/production: 6.4%
- Management of dedicated business line/operations: 5.8%
- Accounting/finance: 5.5%
- Human resources: 2.9%
- Distribution: 2.9%
- Legal: 1.3%
- Other: 6.6%
I-Manager Profile
Gender
Male: 81.8%
Female: 17.2%
Age
18-29: 10.3%
30-39: 29.8%
40-49: 36.2%
50+: 23.7%
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