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Feature Article - Welcome to the Discomfort Zone |
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Today, IT managers at every level find themselves in the Discomfort Zone – where they face a new set of criteria requiring business and IT to cooperate on strategic decision making about how a company will achieve its business goals.
The interdependence of business and IT functions will intensify. The way a company addresses the need for information sharing among disparate groups, inside and outside the walls of an enterprise, can determine their ability to succeed, or even survive, in today’s hyper-connected supply chains.
Today, more than ever before, mid-sized companies must improve how they develop the right products, for the right customers, at the right price, at the right time, and in the right place.
Unprecedented coordination between IT and line of business managers is not an option - it is a requirement.
Any IT organization, no mater where it sits in a supply or demand chain, is subject to the imperative to focus on a core set of commitments:
UNDERSTANDING the “big picture” of their company’s objectives in business terms.
DELIVERING PROJECTS that enable business growth. This means they must work effectively with business managers and have operational knowledge of how the business unit goes to market.
RESPONDING RAPIDLY to demands for new business processes from internal departments as well as external customers and suppliers.
Many of you will find you are being forced out of your comfort zone where “Business as Usual “drives most budgets and decisions, and determines necessary skill-sets. Welcome to the Discomfort Zone where Business as Usual may be the biggest barrier to growth, efficiency and achievement of corporate objectives. |
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