Foote Partners, LLC is a management consultancy and IT workforce management research firm founded in 1997. The firm’s experienced team of former Gartner and META Group industry analysts, McKinsey & Company and Towers Perrin consultants, and former corporate HR, IT, and business executives, advises corporations and governments worldwide on increasing performance and achieving business goals through maximizing collaboration and integration of the IT, business, and HR resources.

The firm’s research and consulting practice areas include:

• IT Compensation and Incentives
• Executive Compensation
• IT Management and Organization
• Outsourcing/Offshoring and Strategic Resource Management
• Performance Management
• Organizational and Transition Management
• Enterprise Project Delivery
• Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Competitive Intelligence
• International and Domestic HR Services

The firm’s research division, Foote Research Group, publishes a series of IT and HR research products that have helped more than 1,000 employers solve their most difficult information technology workforce problems and strengthen their management capabilities.

The firm’s highly respected IT Insider research series features comprehensive and up-to-date IT salary/bonus and technical skills premium pay benchmark surveys, and IT organization and workforce trends research. The firm’s Hot Technical Skills and Certifications Pay Index is currently the world’s most comprehensive source for the market value of certified and noncertified technical skills.

The foundation of the firm’s research is the continuous monitoring of compensation, attitudes, and workplace experiences of 50,000 IT workers in 1,800 North American and European organizations. Highly specialized proprietary data collection methods and analytical techniques are used that produce superior validation and reliability by reclassifying IT job titles to match actual job responsibilities. All surveys are updated and published quarterly.