What skills do companies source from independent contractors, and third-party providers?Explain.

COMP110 Professional Skills in Computer Science (2015-16) — Assignment 4
Your task for this assessment is to prepare and deliver a presentation on the subject:

Requisite Skills for Information Technology Professionals

Your presentation should be based on following papers

K. P. Gallagher, K. M. Kaiser, J. C. Simon, C. M. Beath, T. Goles: The requisite variety of skills for IT professionals. Communications of the ACM 53(6):144-148, 2010.
http://www2.csc.liv.ac.uk/ullrich/COMP110/Gallagher+Kaiser+Simon+Beath+Goles@CACM2010.pdf

K. P. Gallagher, T. Goles, S. Hawk, J. C. Simon, K. M. Kaiser, C. M. Beath, Wm. B. Martz Jr.: A Typology of Requisite Skills for Information Technology Professionals. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-44 2011), pp. 1-10. IEEE Computer Society, 2011.
http://www2.csc.liv.ac.uk/ullrich/COMP110/Gallagher+Goles+Hawk+Simon+Kaiser+Beath+Martz@HICSS2011.pdf

S. Hawk, K. M. Kaiser, T. Goles, C. V. Bullen, J. C. Simon, C. M. Beath, K. P. Gallagher, and K. Frampton: The Information Technology Workforce: A Comparison of Critical Skills of Clients and Service Providers. Information Systems Management 29:2-12, 2012.
http://www2.csc.liv.ac.uk/ullrich/COMP110/Hawk+Kaiser+Goles+Bullen+Simon+Beath+Gallagher+Frampton@ISM2012.pdf

but can also take any other related work into account.

Your presentation should provide a summary of the findings and considerations put forward in these papers with particular focus on the following questions:

What skills and clusters of skills have been identified in 1,2,3 and how were they identified?
Which of those skills are considered to be critical to retain in IT departments, emerging as increasingly important in the future or becoming obsolete in the future?
What skills do companies consider critical when hiring entry-level employees, and mid-level employees? What skills do companies source from independent contractors, and third-party providers?
Why is the outsourcing or offshoring of IT operations a problem for entry-level IT staff in countries like the UK or the US? Does it also provide opportunities?
Format

Your presentation should make use of suitable presentation software and you should be able to deliver it in 10 minutes. Your presentation has to be given using a departmental PC. So, you must ensure that the presentation file works with presentation software available on those PCs.

You should also be prepared to answer questions on the presentation and the three sources the presentation is based on.