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Question – Who do you trust when everybody claims to have the solution?
Answer – You seek out impartial advice, free from hidden agendas.
Technology has an X-factor for some people doesn’t it? For many people, who don’t understand how or why it works, they can help but get enchanted by the boundaries that continually get pushed. Technology is for many people a box of magic that casts its spell over you. You can’t explain how what just happened, happened, but these results are impressive.
For this reason, many businesses put too much focus on their IT. They get enchanted by the capabilities of technology and make decisions about things that they actually have little understanding of. Sadly, they allow themselves to get oversold by the vendor.
Unless you are running a software company, then chances are you don’t need to think about technology, at least not in the way you think your do.
Getting on with the business of being in business
For those of you that that think that I am about to advocate the return to paper or manual typewriters -fear not! Software technology IS needed but you need to understand where and when to use what technology. Software’s role is to facilitate or accelerate the processes or change within your organisation. All too often software is chosen for a business with little understanding of the alternatives. The buyer makes a decision which is heavily influenced by the software’s X factor.
This happens more often that people think. In fact it happens so often that most business leaders who have fallen in to the trap fail to see it in themselves. They make the decision from a place of knowing their business and they think that they understand the software based on what they see in the screens in front of them., the brochures they read or what the salesman tells them. What they don’t have is a working knowledge of the system, until it’s too late.
Bridging the Gap
People who have an detailed understanding of the commercial world and software don’t come along regularly but they are they important conduit between your business and the technology that can facilitates it.
These people exist and these are the people you should make use of and utilise their skills in the best way you can. In saying that, its important to realise that there are many bridges to cross. It’s unlikely that a person who bridges the ‘workflow – business’ divide also bridges the ‘business – IT hardware’ divide. If there are many bridges then you must know many people and they are hard to come by.
Where do I fit it?
I don’t have all the answers but I know the people who can unlock some of those puzzles. It’s my job to understand IT capabilities from an impartial stand point. When the time is right I have the skill to match your business to the right ‘bridge owner.’ I’ve made it my business to know the vendors, know the technology and put you in contact with people that can make a real difference.
On my travels I come across lots of different types of technology. Sometimes I will give them a write up here. I also like to share my observations of the industry on my blog.
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