On 12/15/2011 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with
some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert
cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical corporations or
typical organizations, etc. Somebody uses a term like "overhead" or
"secondary" referring to support roles. But you're an IT person - You're a
support role, and depending on what is your core business, most likely
you're overhead.
With only a moment's thought, and only a few words, how do you describe the
value that your role adds to the organization? How do you justify your own
existence, casually, when talking to a CFO or somebody in a social
situation?
I suggest something like this:
"I'm one of the team that makes sure the computers, networks,
telephones, power, fire alarms, printers, and cell phones are always
working. In short, I'm the guy who keeps the magic smoke from leaking
out of the wires, because computers run on magic smoke, and if it leaks
out, things stop working. I like to think I do my job well, and the
measure of my team's success is that you've probably never heard of us."
HTH.
Bill Horne
http://www.billhorne.com/
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