Parity, a leading IT Business services organization delivering technical, recruitment and training solutions to the UK and Irish markets, that is focusing on the key areas of project, programme and IT service management, conducted a research that revealed startling disconnects between IT and the wider business world which has asked them to raise the question 'What exactly is an IT Professional?'

Managing Director of Parity Training, Rick Firth, answers: "It has always been assumed that IT Managers should possess relevant technical skills, but we are now asking whether these are always necessary if other more valuable business skills are compromised. We believe that senior IT Professionals must be business people first and have the commercial and management skills to manage teams of people, financial budgets and projects."

As 24-7 Press Release announces the Parity research into what makes a winning project team and the future of ITIL in the boardroom highlights important weaknesses in the necessary skills required to run a business. Both sets of research demonstrate commitment to functional skills i.e. ensuring projects meet business objectives over time and budget, and delivering internal customer satisfaction regardless of the financial impacts.

Firth adds: "The average hard nosed CFO is not going to be impressed with achieving objectives at huge, out of budget costs, or indeed have delivery of great internal customer service with no regard to the financial implications."

To improve organizations’ performance and guarantee business success Parity are making huge changes to the way they sell their IT training services. Parity launched value added services such as Learning Plus and Parity e-books that intend to completely overhaul their learning portfolio to include IT Governance, Management and Professional skills.

Firth emphasizes the importance of this help that aims to be productive for the IT Management Professionals, "We are going to focus on upgrading Management skills. Our research during the year has consistently told us that we need to address these skills shortages. This means we will be focusing our delivery strategy at the IT business improvement level. It is a significant change and learning delivery end solutions need to change to meet this challenge. Parity intends to be at the forefront of responding to this".

Parity Group are leaders in IT Service Management and Programme and Project Management training and consulting and were one of the original founders of PRINCE (Projects in Controlled Environments), 30 years expertise is a kind of guarantee to achieve the goals and improve performance of the organizations and IT managers who lack managerial skills. Nothing successful was ever managed and accomplished standing separately but the secret of achieving goals is developing technical part together with strategic planning process.