Eric D. Brown is a Dallas based Technology Consultant, and Entrepreneur focused on helping businesses and non-profits merge business, marketing and technology. He writes extensively about technology, strategy, people and projects at ericbrown.com. Eric is also an amateur Photographer and shares his photography work at Photography Minute and on his flickr photostream.
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[...] There is some good stuff here, especially that last bullet point. Perhaps 2009 and beyond will see organizations focus on building their IT staff’s talent and capabilities. Sounds like organizations are finally realizing that IT Staff can be a competitive advantage. [...]
I feel the biggest failure in strategic planning today is the lack of efficiency in the process… from idea to implementation. It strikes me as being similar to the Golden Gate bridge… by the time the crew finishes painting the bridge, it is time to start all over again. Organizations who want a successful plan not only need to consider all potential impacts, of which technology is truly the 800 lb gorilla in todays world, but also the living breathing flexibility of th eplan. In developing QuickPlanner Plus, our first step was to ensure that all plans developed with this program could achieve living, breathing, realistic results and be flexible enough to change when necessary.
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Thanks for your comment. I like your analogy of the Golden Gate bridge…very insightful.
IT human capital is a huge asset. My ex company wouldn’t even allow us in marketing to announce new hires as the demand is so competitive for quality talent.
So true. Companies are usually so obsessed with their fixed assets in IT that they stary believing these are more important than their human assets. This is especially true in the recession where businesses are laying off experienced IT staff and replacing them with cheaper graduates – but they end up realising too late how much they depended on those great people. Will def come back to the full PDF when I get some time!