Firms must plan now for Olympic skill crisis

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Managers should take some simple steps to reduce the chance of staff being poached for major government IT projects

IT managers should start planning staff training and retention programmes for the next three years now or risk major skills shortages in 2008 when demand for IT professionals to work on the London ...

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