<snip> > > Furthermore, management is quick to point out that the IT folks > are not responsive to the "rapid change of business needs", yet > management will not fund training in new or updated technologies > for their staff (nor even for conceptual updates for themselves). > > While I'm at it, another common piece of folk lore, to me, is > the constant claim that IT people are "not aligned" with the > business needs. And yet the folks responsible for maintaining > any application usually know very deeply how it works; yet > management will not spend any time learning how IT supports the > vital interests and functioning of their own business! > >
In serious line of business applications with, competing requirements from many internal departments, it is often that IT is the central and only organization that understand multiple aspects of the business and how they work (or not) together. How many times have you had to ask two business units to resolve the requirements conflicts at a business level because they are a) doing conflicting things; b) doing similar things in an inconsistent and incompatible manner; or c) wanting to do things that are proven money losers. > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
