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In recent year, there is a significance increase on the IT industry. According to the World Economic Forum's Networked Readiness Index 2013, Hong Kong ranked fourth in Asia and 14th globally in terms of readiness to participate in and benefit from IT developments. In Hong Kong, there are many employees work on several services. For example, IT/Software Development, Operation Services, Field Support, IT Sales & Marketing, Telecommunications and Networking, etc. These kinds of services play an important role to the business of Hong Kong. Nowadays, many non-IT-related firms require some software or systems to make implement automation of their business. For example, e-banking of some bank which can provide 24 hours banking service available on the internet. This is one of the banking services popular in recent year. To make this system implement successfully, IT professionals are required. A project will be opened. There are many similar cases in Hong Kong. Most of them are non-IT-related business, but they need some software and IT professionals in order to raise the productivity or do some automation of the business which can help to save some resources. We can see that there is a lot of potential for IT industry. Also, well-developed system or automation may also result a successful business. Software Development is one of the major services of IT industry. Develop a good software for a firm to use is have a lot of potential. There is also a chance to make your software popular.
IT industries in Hong Kong play an important role to HK business. The development of IT industry helps Hong Kong to become international financial centre. IT acts as a supporter which help to provide a platform and system maintenance. This two are the key factors that make the 24-hour transaction with different country successful. We can see that the importance of IT industry is very high.
View from individual, IT professionals can touch with different type of business they want to touch. For example, bank, insurance, etc. We can apply the job for IT department. There is an optimistic occasion on IT industry in Hong Kong. As the rapid development of Information Technology, more and more company will start to rely on IT for automation or operation improvement. There will be more jobs available on IT industry. Also, these jobs come from different type of business which may not IT-related firm. We can have larger opportunities to work and gain experiences. This means we can have more opportunities to become project manager in a shorter period of time. I believe that IT industry in Hong Kong will keep develop in futures.

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