Bill Suggests Boards Buck Up

One thing I love about working here is the amount of research we invest in.

Last month is was all about small business marketing and how some 62% of SMBs are not investing in promoting their websites through online strategies because “it’s too complicated!”

This month Bill Gates has written an article for the BBC based on research that shows “IT knowledge” placed 7th on the list of must have key-skills by the leaders of 500 companies in the UK.

He hinted that computer skills were undervalued as “a solid working knowledge of productivity software has become a basic foundation for success in virtually any career.”

So from the below, where would you put IT? Doesn’t a good knowledge of computers enhance most of the other skills? Should it be on the list at all?

TOP BUSINESS SKILLS

1. Team working and interpersonal skills

2. Initiative

3. Analysing and problem solving

4. Verbal communication

5. Personal planning and organising

6. Flexibility

7. IT skills