An End Run Around IT

John Soat’s Information Week article Don’t Let Tech-Savvy Business Execs Do An End Run Around IT is certainly a wake up call for the CIO and the end user IT department in general.

The CIO has to raise their game or get out of the way. There are actually very few tech-savvy execs. However their can-do mindset coupled with web-service selling vendors is creating a ‘we know IT’ mindset. This is very dangerous as this creates stovepipe solutions that may meet the needs of individual departments but lead to poor enterprise-wide value extraction from the IT investment.