The Business-IT Gap - and How You Will Close It (From Reading Geek Night 16)
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The document discusses the gap that often exists between business and IT perspectives. It notes that while business is focused on operational concerns and budgets, IT is focused more on tasks and projects based on their expertise. The document suggests that bridging this gap requires both sides to understand each other's perspectives and priorities better in order to work together effectively towards common goals.
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The Business-IT Gap - and How You Will Close It (From Reading Geek Night 16)
- 1. The Business—IT Gap (and how you will close it)
- 5. It’s all about the money, right?
- 6. “Most people are nerds about something. The great things happen when a group of people are nerdy about overlapping things.” — Merlin Mann
- 7. “We reserve our most virulent emotions - aggression, hatred, envy - towards those who resemble us the most. We feel threatened not by the Other with whom we have little in common - but by the ‘nearly- we’, who mirror and reflect us. — Sigmund Freud
- 8. Maker’s Schedule Manager’s Schedule Task/Project Focus Operational Focus Ownership based on Ownership based Expertise on Budget
- 12. Thanks! @marwoodchap james@thatmarwoodchap.com thatmarwoodchap.com 07590 422806 Or right here, now
Editor's Notes
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- STUPID\nGRASPING\nSTYLE OVER SUBSTANCE\nM3 AND A BLUETOOTH HEADSET\n£200 CHINESE SUIT PRETENDING TO BE SAVILE ROW\n
- NERD/GEEK \nTALK TO YOU ABOUT FIXING YOUR COMPUTER AND ABOUT COMIC BOOKS\n
- NERDS CARE\nNERDS WANT TO EXCEL\n
- NO\nPRIDE\nEXCELLENCE\nREGARD\nDAN PINK: DRIVE\n
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- NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES\nWE'RE SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER THAT WE WANT TO HATE EACH OTHER\n
- PAUL GRAHAM\nGENERALISATION\nNOT 100% ACCURATE\n
- agile\nPM DOI\nChaordic organisations (eg VISA)\norg structure - no director of telephones - millenium bug\nmotivation/performance management\nskunkworks-type approaches\n\nsystems thinking/design based management\n
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- Merlin Mann First person transitive - I drank the coffee\n\nTransactional analysis - Karpman drama triangle\n\nCulture is doing what we’re rewarded for, and doing what people we admire do - then we can change culture by becoming admirable\n\nYou can only control how you view, consider & react to things\nYou can, maybe, influence others\n\ndefine acceptable behaviour - rules for access\n\nKissinger quote on why academic politics are so vicious, because they are so unimportant\nWhen do you know when you have enough information\nRespect the time & attention of others - teach them to respect yours - @agenda lists\n
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