Two posts in one day!

So two posts on a single day... that's a first!

well for me anyway!

It is amazing how many people you meet in IT who seem to forget that the business of IT is business. It is even more amazing how many businesses seem to forget that IT is the business.

Not understanding me?

Well look at a typical organisation (Sorry my American friends, English English spellings...).

Find out how the IT Structure is set up. You will find that in most organisations IT reports into the Finance function of the organisation.

So when you see this you wonder why is that as IT as a function is separate just as HR or Finance is.

Then when you see things you realise that Business considers IT an cost to the business rather than a cost reduction center.

The reason for living for IT is that it enables the business to function at its most optimum and tries to ensure that the business can function and operate in a complicated environment of rules and regulations across borders.

If modern day computer systems were not maintained and the IT organisation not empowered to act independently what you end up with is that the people best placed to look at things and identify issues are effectively shackled from what is a duty to report and enable the business to operate in.

The problem is in dispelling this myth as this has become quite entrenched due to how the IT industry began.

It had initially begun as a function to finance however over time it has grown much more beyond its original scope to the point now that it attracts talent from a varied disciplines and skill sets.

Organisations are now beginning to recognise this and so are IT decision makers to the point now that you are starting to see IT to be a business function in it's own right and move beyond it being considered as a pure cost.