The relationship between IT and the Business is broken. IT sees the Business as children to be protected and the Business sees IT as geeky adolescents to be avoided. Users are not children and IT should not be parents. Partnership is the approach that will maximize financial benefits and opportunities across the organization. In this session participants will learn: Why IT and the Business Clash, How to trade places for understanding, How to accelerate execution with business partnership. Learning Objectives Understand why IT and the Business clash How to trade places for understanding Accelerating execution with partnership

1. Business Parenting – Make IT Easy NOW!
Moving from parenting to partnership to accelerate technology delivery
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2. About Me

3. WAZA | Noun | [wah.zah]
1. Good form, technique
2. Consider, think, imagine
WHAT ARE WAZA?
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4.  Trading places for understanding…. IT vs Business
 5 Ways IT Acts like parents
 4 Paths for better partnership
WAZA FOR TODAY! Make IT Easy NOW

5. I CAN
EXPLAIN
IT
TO YOU
BUT I CAN’T
UNDERSTAND
IT
FOR YOU

6. Trading Places for Understanding

7. When did IT become a dirty word?
1. Control
2. Results
3. Tactics (Reactive)
4. Expense vs Investment
5. Quickness or Quality
6. Custom or Standard
7. Innovation or Bureaucracy
8. Greatness or Goodness

8. When did IT become a dirty word?

9. .
Why more technology is not the answer

10. Information Technology is viewed as the primary
solution to a business capability improvement
Failure Point for IT

11. What you need to understand about IT
Increasing
Demands
Business
Credibility
Duplicated
Efforts
•Best use of IT resources
•Want faster time to market for business
solutions
•Decreased confidence in IT
•Decreased employee satisfaction
• Slow execution of business transformations
• Cross functional prioritization of initiatives

12. What you need to understand about the Business

13. Business leaders are often not aware or engaged in
the role of defining desired cross functional business
outcomes vs technical solutions in the context of the
organizations culture and political dynamics.
Failure Points for the Business

14. 5 Ways IT Acts Like Bad Parents

15. The Helicopter – Hovering Doesn’t Help

16. The Over Protector - Protect them from themselves

17. The Disciplinarian - Why, because I said so

18. The Over Giver - The I built it and they didn’t come

19. The Absentee – Providing without relationship

20. 4 Paths For Partnership

21. 1.) Change your approach for better outcomes

22. 2.) Bridge gaps in the home and technology village

23. 2.)Bridge gaps in the home and technology village

24. 3.) Design for mindfulness in an age of distraction
Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's
attention to experiences occurring in the present moment

25. 4.)Team skills that move from Parenting to
Partnership
1. Trust – solid and honest relationship
2. Mutual Respect – open to dialogue and exchange
3. Solidarity – response to real needs
4. Accountability – responsible for actions

26.  Cost-Saves money for the organization by being
proactive with organizational risks to change
 Speed-Increases the velocity of users adopting a new
solution, achieving business outcomes
 Consensus-Getting people on board and aligned
Partnership - Benefits

27. MAKE
IT
EASY
NOW
Moving from Parenting
to Partnership in
Business Relationships
Columbus Brown, MBA
Part I – Trading Places for Understanding
Part II - 5 Ways IT Acts Like Bad Parents
Part III – 5 Paths for Partnership
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Business Parenting – Make IT Easy Now

29. 12 Steps to creating a better Partnership
1. Level setting – What Business are you in?
2. Identify work – What assets can we leverage?
3. Identify your clients – Who are we working for?
4. Determine how you will provide value
5. Create vision and strategy
6. Identify roadblocks
7. Create your products and services
8. Determine capabilities
9. Determine resources
10.Create an operating model
11.Create an 18-36 month roadmap
12.90 day action plan

30. THINKEma
PAINS GAINS
THINK
SAY and DO
SEEHEAR
Customer Empathy Map
Customer