{"id":7047,"date":"2013-10-18T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:57:39","slug":"weekly-recap-9-hottest-mobile-development-skills-strategic-tech-trends-for-2014-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/weekly-recap-9-hottest-mobile-development-skills-strategic-tech-trends-for-2014-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly recap: 9 hottest mobile development skills, strategic tech trends for 2014, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/>Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I\u2019ve found over the past week. This week\u2019s top articles focus on the hottest mobile development skills, Gartner&#8217;s strategic tech for 2014, and more. I hope you find them useful:<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20131018_9HottestMobileDevelopmentSkills_InfoDeluge']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.information-management.com\/news\/combatting-the-information-deluge-10024954-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Combatting the information deluge<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nInformation is exploding at an unprecedented rate. The burden falls on companies to not only turn that data into actionable metrics (like this <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'User Defined Dashboard']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.crazybikes.com\/mrcjava\/servlet\/CRAZYBIKES.I11060s?id=27295653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">user-defined dashboard<\/span><\/a>, for example), but also secure and store that data.<br \/>\n<a name=\"20131015\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">9 hottest mobile development skills<\/span><br \/>\nHere\u2019s a nice list of mobile skills that employers search for most often. While it\u2019s an interesting list, a commenter summed it up the best: There\u2019s just too much to learn. Companies can\u2019t possibly afford to bring in all of these extra skills to develop mobile apps. That\u2019s one reason I recommend the <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'PDF Download', 'Mobile', 'Blog']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/research\/whitepapers\/NativeAppsWrongChoice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">mobile web app approach for business<\/span><\/a>. It gets you to mobile without all of the effort.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20131018_9HottestMobileDevelopmentSkills_Gartner']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterhigh\/2013\/10\/14\/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Gartner\u2019s top 10 strategic tech trends for 2014<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nGartner just concluded it\u2019s ITxpo 2013, in which it shared the top tech trends going into next year. Not surprisingly, mobile tops the list. Does anything on their list surprise you?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">The IT skills gap is really an education gap<\/span><br \/>\nThere\u2019s a growing <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Skills Gap']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/Strategy\/skills-gap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">skills gap<\/span><\/a> in IT, in which companies can\u2019t find employees with the skills necessary to meet their needs. What\u2019s causing this gap, and&#8211;more importantly&#8211;how can we fight it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I\u2019ve found over the past week. This week\u2019s top articles focus on the hottest mobile development skills, Gartner&#8217;s strategic tech for 2014, and more. 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