With clients in several data-hungry sectors such as healthcare, utilities and retail, Information Control Corp. (ICC), an IT services company based in Columbus, Ohio, has a rapidly expanding data analytics and business intelligence practice.

But ICC, even with its nearly 500 IT service professionals on staff, faces a familiar problem.

“We’re always searching for talent, and we haven’t been able to fill our needs fast enough because the talent isn’t there,” says ICC President John Kratz.

So ICC decided if it couldn’t find IT and analytics talent, it would develop it.