Your top Java programmer might be a whiz at developing good code, but does he understand the way it ultimately will be used in the final product? Without that knowledge, he can only go so far and you might lose out on someone who might be a valuable project manager someday. You can increase the value of your IT staff to the organization--while improving job satisfaction--by instituting a job rotation program that educates IT staff about the breadth of the business. That means rotating IT staff in and out of various IT jobs, as well as relevant marketing and business functions.

Learn more about the benefits of a job rotation program:
- read the article at InfoWorld