The world of IT or the Information Technology departments of organizations has shifted and transformed from a ‘technical’ department into a business operational unit becoming more and more aligned with the traditional business units. IT has moved from simply delivering hardware and applications to delivering solutions that have a meaningful financial impact on the organization.
I find myself more and more discussing and speaking about the value of what IT is delivering. I am passionate about technology and the opportunity it brings to the organization. I am also an advocate that technology must solve a business problem, and it must bring meaningful value to the organization.
Far too often I see IT folks with a hot new technology trying to find a business problem to solve. We in IT must become part of the business, learning and understanding its processes, its cultures, its idiosyncrasies, and its business models. How does the business operate? How does it make money? How is IT impacting the businesses ability to operate in today’s economy? When we have a deep understanding for these questions, we can then begin looking for area’s where our technology can bring value and wholly affect the organization in the market place.
Today’s IT leaders require more than ever before an increasingly broadened field of focus and diversity. On one hand an understanding of what disk speed and architecture will support the IOP’s required for our new virtualization technology. On the other hand balancing the budget with last months actuals. We must be able to walk through the data center enabling command and control, and then sit in the board room and discuss organization strategy and vision.
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thanks
Dave Hodgson, January 1, 2012
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