IBM tells how to become the big cheese
How to get your boss's job
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 16:25
FOR THOSE INQ readers hoping to escape their server room and climb the ladder up to the dizzying heights of the boardroom one day, don't miss this special chance to learn what it is that makes IT chiefs tick.
IBM has released a global study of the challenges facing IT leaders today, which it produced on the basis of conversations held with more than 2,500 global CIOs.
The survey confirmed that CIOs need to be business savvy as well as technologists now, as it's not just about IT anymore.
For those of you who might be wanting to improve your corporate chops, you can get the full report from Computing's website or, for the less ambitious among you, just be happy you're enjoying your work and staying true to your techie self. µ
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It's been obvious for years. The more technologically advanced a society gets, the more specialized the jobs tend to become. If the wheel falls off your oxcart, you just get a hammer and another wheel and replace it. But if your Hummer starts to make weird sounds, a guy with years of education charges you $300 to replace a part that's about the size of your hand and does God knows what for your car.
For some reason IBM doesn't allow downloading: "403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/common/ssi/ssialias on this server" Likely IBM IT doesn't like new cheese?
"as it's not just about IT anymore." It never was. The fact that so many IT managers began to think it was accounts for the rather deplorable state of IT departments and their products in todays enterprises.
Management is only now beginning to realize that the IT department is there to serve their needs, and not the reverse.
Au contraire.
Management - ignorant of all matters IT and proud of it - has always thought that the IT department is there not merely to serve their needs, but to kowtow to their every whim, however unreasonable (or, in some cases, physically impossible).
To paraphrase your own words: management would do well to learn that they are there to serve the needs of the organization, and not the reverse.