Abstract
Information technology (IT) industry is essential in Finland because of its significant export contribution, extensive workforce, and research and innovation contributions. This chapter highlights key issues in this important industry. For instance, IT reliability and efficiency are the top issues necessary for the Finnish IT industry's competitiveness in a global context. Furthermore, business intelligence and analytics tools, techniques and skills are central to the Finnish IT industry. The industry has a very experienced workforce that is however aging and thus there is a need for training of young personnel to join the industry. Generally, the Finnish IT workers are satisfied with their jobs and exhibit low turnover intentions.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The World IT Project |
| Subtitle of host publication | Global Issues in Information Technology |
| Publisher | World Scientific |
| Pages | 93-104 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-981-120-863-8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
| Publication type | A3 Book chapter |
Publication series
| Name | World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Business |
|---|---|
| Volume | 17 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2251-3442 |
Funding
We are grateful for the financial support of TSR, The Finnish Work Environment Fund (https://www.tsr.fi/en/frontpage) and the fruitful collaboration with TIVIA, the Finnish Information Processing Association (www.tivia.fi). We also thank the international consortium of the World IT Project and look forward to further research and development activities.
Publication forum classification
- Publication forum level 1
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Business,Management and Accounting
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