Tag Archives: Business Alignment

IT Is Too Slow

Nicholas Carr was wrong when he said that IT doesn’t matter[1]. Carr wrote about the “Commoditization of IT” and the resulting lack of competitive differentiation since everyone can buy the same hardware and software. But Carr missed the point entirely; IT is not about technology, it’s about data. The data that IT systems contain and [...]

Does Business NEED To Be Involved?

This should be a rhetorical question since the obvious answer is YES, but if an alien from another planet were to observe the behavior of many organizations in regards to business involvement in data quality, the conclusion would be NO.  Here are the questions the alien might ask: Who makes staff hiring/firing decisions?  Line management [...]