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GM creates Austin technology center

Friday, September 7, 2012, 08:31 AM

General Motors Corp. announced Friday it will create an IT (information technology) Innovation Center in Austin that will employ up to 500 people.

The giant car maker said it wants to advance its information technology capabilities to keep up with advances in its business. The Austin center will be the first of four IT centers that the company expects to announce over the next year.

The company said it wants to use IT to drive down its cost of operations while improving the speed of development of new products and services.

It expects to hire software developers, project managers, database experts, business analysts and other information specialists to the new center.

It said it chose Austin because Central Texas already has a strong supply of such workers.

“We want IT to keep up with the imagination of the GM business partners and to do that, we plan to balance the employment model over the next three years so that the majority of our IT work is done by GM employees focused on extending new capabilities that further enable our business,” said GM Chief Information Officer Randy Mott.

“The IT Innovation Centers are critical to our overall IT business strategy and transformation.”

Although GM said its target for the Austin Center was 500 jobs, Mott acknowledged that, over time, GM’s addition of IT jobs might expand to close to 10,000 jobs companywide.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...omputer_c.html