On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What the hell happened to professional IT? > > At one time, very few organizations needed IT infrastructure, so the > fairly small pool of very smart people was not spread very thin. With > time, however, the number of organizations needing IT has grown > rapidly, while the number of good IT people has not. This has been > especially devastating at the management level, where the number of > smart managers needed has grown but the number of smart managers has > not -- nothing ruins a department like bad management, and the number > of good managers is simply miniscule compared to demand. Worse still, > the number of people who can judge a good manager is even smaller...
I think it has also something to do with people preferring short-term solutions (quick-fix it now, we can look at it later) over long-term (If we spend time now and make this robust, we will have less headache/maintainence later) A HBR article (rather the insightful comments) seal this type of thinking. Why don't managers think deeply ? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5952.html -- Vinayak
