Comments on: Why it is a sad thing when projects are in the IT domain http://www.ome-b.nl/2010/03/09/why-it-is-a-sad-thing-when-project-are-in-the-it-domain/ Creative Software Solutions Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Douwe Pieter van den Bos http://www.ome-b.nl/2010/03/09/why-it-is-a-sad-thing-when-project-are-in-the-it-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Douwe Pieter van den Bos Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:59:17 +0000 http://www.ome-b.nl/?p=544#comment-244 Hi Frank, I agree with you, but this is not a surprice. We actually both meen the same thing. IT and Business should and must work together on innovation and fascilitating should be on a pro-active basis. What we, in the IT department, just need to know, is the fact that business problems are business problems and that only business can say anything meaningfull about their business processes. We need to fascilitate them in an active way in order to make them see how they can solve thing. IT is our Business, Business the Business'. (this is getting confusing now... ;-) ) This also means (if I get it correctly this is the same thing you say) that IT and Business need to work more together, not seperate organized and managed department, but one organization with one common goal. Hi Frank,

I agree with you, but this is not a surprice. We actually both meen the same thing. IT and Business should and must work together on innovation and fascilitating should be on a pro-active basis.

What we, in the IT department, just need to know, is the fact that business problems are business problems and that only business can say anything meaningfull about their business processes. We need to fascilitate them in an active way in order to make them see how they can solve thing. IT is our Business, Business the Business’. (this is getting confusing now… ;-) )

This also means (if I get it correctly this is the same thing you say) that IT and Business need to work more together, not seperate organized and managed department, but one organization with one common goal.

]]> By: Frank http://www.ome-b.nl/2010/03/09/why-it-is-a-sad-thing-when-project-are-in-the-it-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Frank Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:27:35 +0000 http://www.ome-b.nl/?p=544#comment-241 I agree fully with you that most IT projects facilitate business. I don't think that this is always the case. The best impact is created in projects where IT changes business models. When the abilities of IT enable new and improved ways to run an organization or even change the business model. Of course, these events are scarce and it would be foolish to focus only on them. But I do believe that in essence IT should be more than just cost and more than just a facilitator for business. That's why I think it's important that business is not the only driver in this (as you seem to state above). There aren't many industries changing faster that ours and there aren't many that have a bigger impact on everyday life. If we leave it to the business executives, the only thing we do is follow. Always with the same solution (the one they know) and never as innovator. Therefore IT should get a much more important place within organizations. The CIO needs to educate the board and help them spot the business opportunities that IT can bring. Peter Hinssen explains this in his book Business IT Fusion (http://www.it-fusion.com/). It's excellent. Bring IT and business together so they can mutually benefit. Both listening, both on equal grounds. Well... that's my tuppence ;) I agree fully with you that most IT projects facilitate business. I don’t think that this is always the case. The best impact is created in projects where IT changes business models. When the abilities of IT enable new and improved ways to run an organization or even change the business model. Of course, these events are scarce and it would be foolish to focus only on them.
But I do believe that in essence IT should be more than just cost and more than just a facilitator for business. That’s why I think it’s important that business is not the only driver in this (as you seem to state above). There aren’t many industries changing faster that ours and there aren’t many that have a bigger impact on everyday life. If we leave it to the business executives, the only thing we do is follow. Always with the same solution (the one they know) and never as innovator.
Therefore IT should get a much more important place within organizations. The CIO needs to educate the board and help them spot the business opportunities that IT can bring. Peter Hinssen explains this in his book Business IT Fusion (http://www.it-fusion.com/). It’s excellent.
Bring IT and business together so they can mutually benefit. Both listening, both on equal grounds.
Well… that’s my tuppence ;)

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