The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Linked-in forum recently hosted a thread entitled “I hate IT because..” it quickly reached 26 pages as managing director after managing director let fire at IT. It was all there, the fear, the loathing and the doubt about IT and specifically the value IT delivers to their organisations!
Also recently, on a well known CIO forum on Linked-in a thread was posted asking how members measured the business value and performance of their IT team. Apart from my short reply (as I was hoping see a good discussion) there were zero responses! Instead the hottest topics were “should the CIO report to the CFO” and “agile versus waterfall”?
What is it about selling our value as CIO’s and selling the value of IT to organisations that makes us all go weak at the knees? What is the point about complaining about who you report to if you cannot articulate why you should be employed in the first place? Come-on IT wake up to yourself and start focusing on the only thing that matters – delivering IT value.
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