On closer inspection it's easy to see why a career in the armed forces might equip potential recruits with easily transferrable skills currently in demand in the IT industry. Life on the ocean wave Terry-Brown works as a project manager for a set of telecoms projects at ICL, but until January 1999 was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, having joined the Senior Service after taking a degree in economics. Halfway through his tour of duty, he married and started looking for a job that would allow him a family life. This meant looking outside the Navy. The adjustment has been minimal.
Good management is common sense.
If there's a difference, it's the level of detail at which you work. In the Navy, we would be doing three or four jobs at once. Here, I know what I'm going to be doing on any day in much greater detail. Admittedly, Terry-Brown had something more than pure project management skills to offer his future employer. I felt a lack of commercial acumen, and the MBA was an attempt to bridge that gap.