I cannot imagine my success as a CIO without a complete business focus. Not only how to run IT as a business unit but how one applies the role of accounting/business & tecnology to IT solutions. You do not have to look much further than IT Portfolio Management practices to realize the benefits to good business and IT Governance.
R Fox
CIO / WGI
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This is an interesting article...
This is an interesting article. I feel that the potential of technologists within the field of business span much further than is currently available. The requirements for innovation, lateral thinking, persuasive behaviour and alike are often natural traits of technologists. That said, generally both business people and technologists dont make life easy for themselves:
http://business-vs-technology.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-business-people-are-attack.html
http://business-vs-technology.blogspot.com/2008/08/overcoming-tech-speak.html
http://business-vs-technology.blogspot.com/
Yes, it is like a marriage
More than one way. The "big" IT started maybe in 70's and, at least where I was, all(?) IT departments were profit centers, even some in government! Then, as happens often in marriage, it started deteriorating in 80's, hit the crisis in 90's and is now coming back together in old age.
Yes, certificates help if you are looking a job but education and experience help even more if you are looking to be successful in a job. Just my opinion but knowing a business is more than a certificate, each business is different, works differently!
There used to be time when almost everyone in IT had to take 1-6 months business counseling, sorry education, when started. We even required vendor and outside support to take that, otherwise they couldn't help in our technical problems as well as needed.
I have seen too many huge IT projects to fail because they forgot the business realities, so I'm for IT and business marriage and happy endings.
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