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Newsflash: The leadership in organizations hates IT. (Link goes to CIO.com)

The writer of the article ascribes this hatred to “cost, complexity and customization”. The last one should read “lack of customization” but that makes the list asymmetrical and not as catchy

What surprises me is that while executives always rant about those three factors, very few complain about the lack of innovation coming from their IT organizations. I do not mean to imply that all IT organizations fail at innovation. But seriously, when was the last time you heard a CFO or a CEO get genuinely excited about an IT innovation that helped solve a major business problem?

Rightly or wrongly, the average IT department has transformed - some would argue it was always so - into an implementor of technology. It evaluates software, it implements them and it keeps the software running. Who has the time to innovate?

Should not that be making business executives mad? Unfortunately, unlike the 3Cs, it is not so simple to blame IT for not innovating.

Part of that blame clearly belongs to the company’s leadership.

Tags: IT (General), leadership

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