As IT leaders we are accustomed to operating in an environment that is often brutally driven by the numbers. Managing a large cost center and IT investments represent a significant fiduciary duty to our organizations, one where cost/benefit, ROI and other financial terms are daily topics of conversation. This is made all the more real by a challenging economic environment and the need to make the most of the limited capital available to us. We’d like to believe that the [...]
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In managing technical teams, an IT leader will routinely be in a position of making decisions between two or more competing technical views, systems architectures or proposed solutions. As “the decider”, you may consider yourself fortunate to have multiple choices presented to you by your staff, as >1 options would seem to increase the likelihood that the most appropriate decision can be found among the competing views. An unfortunate situation experienced too often by IT leaders is the overwhelming “need [...]
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