(As posted by forummer at youngpap]
One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that
digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an
information worker.
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary
activity. This isn't true at all.
In almost every job now, people use software and work with
information to enable their organisation to operate more
effectively.
That's true for everyone from the retail store worker who uses a
handheld scanner to track inventory to the chief executive who uses
business intelligence software to analyse critical market
trends.
So if you look at how progress is made and where competitive
advantage is created, there's no doubt that the ability to use
software tools effectively is critical to succeeding in today's
global knowledge economy.
A solid working knowledge of productivity software and other IT
tools has become a basic foundation for success in virtually any
career.
Beyond that, however, I don't think you can overemphasise the
importance of having a good background in maths and science.
If you look at the most interesting things that have emerged in the
last decade - whether it is cool things like portable music devices
and video games or more practical things like smart phones and
medical technology - they all come from the realm of science and
engineering.
The power of software
Today and in the future, many of the jobs with the greatest impact
will be related to software, whether it is developing software
working for a company like Microsoft or helping other organisations
use information technology tools to be successful.
Communication skills and the ability to work well with different
types of people are very important too.
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary
activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day
and write lots of code.
This isn't true at all.
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation,
requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other
people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their
feedback and understand their needs.
I also place a high value on having a passion for ongoing learning.
When I was pretty young, I picked up the habit of reading lots of
books.
It's great to read widely about a broad range of subjects. Of
course today, it's far easier to go online and find information
about any topic that interests you.
Having that kind of curiosity about the world helps anyone succeed,
no matter what kind of work they decide to pursue.
Bill Gates is chairman, chief software architect and one of the
founders of Microsoft, the world's largest software company. From
July 2008 he will end his day-to-day involvement in the company and
focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and its global
health and education work.
I agree with Bill Gates' vision that the world will be
controlled by softwares. Whoever is best in software designing will
ultimately call the shot.
Beside the computer software offering us more efficient office work
processes from "Word" to "Spread Sheets" there are many works and
services which are being broken down into component steps and
worked from the software with each step and each criterion and
constraint analysed and corrective actions taken to automate
works.
However before we can develop the software engineering expertise we
must produce enough professionals who could analyse work processes
for such software development which Bill Gates is talking of.
Without such analytical process workers the software engineers will
find it difficult to do anything.
The current education system is too general failing to promote such
process analysts in large numbers to support software
development.
We need to have high level people at the ministerial level to
oversee such strategic direction to reach the Bill Gates' vision of
turning all work processes into softwares to operate more
efficiently and successfully.
Before software which Bill Gates use to convert works, let there by
supportive work processing experts to convert works and services
into universal simple doable steps as posted in www.managefranchise.blogspot.com