Jesper A. Frederiksen
IT and business are one of those odd couples we all know from our personal lives. They seem to work very well together; but tend to use a lot of time in couple’s therapy, where every single “therapy expert” seems to have an opinion on how to make their life together more easy and fruitful.
As I see it the biggest problem, we face when trying to align IT and business, is the fact that the IT-solutions are created by techies and that the problems and challenges are created by the business and the non-IT professionals that are just trying to get their job done... This will inevitably result in a lack of common standards to measure results against. I believe it is a mutual responsibility for both sides to get their communication acts together. Unless we really want to throw precious resources - time and money - down a deep deep abyss from where they will never return...
On this site I wish to discuss and bring these matters to the frontline - through my experience with the IT-world I have seen many product vendors trying like mad to get their message through to organisations/customers and not understanding why things aren’t just picked up immediately. And on the other “customer” side the of the fence they just can’t understand way the IT crowd keeps throwing three letter abbreviations at them.
So let the games and the translation begin...
AN IT SITE WERE THE LANGUAGE IS BUSINESS...
(Nearly) All about me
I have 2 main focus areas that I work with: Making sure that knowledge driven IT-specialists have the right working conditions in order for them to be able to provide organisations with the right advise at the right time. The second area that I focus on is bringing business to the front of the overall IT discussion, as I am a strong believer in IT as a business-driver and not the other way around.
And why do I want to make my voice heard on this wondrous world wide web (wwww) about these matters? I guess the career path I have chosen has had a tendency to bring me smack right in the middle between technically focused “wizards” and “tech-avers” business owners. It has been my job, for the last two decade or so, to try - to the best of my abilities - and get these two sides to understand each other resulting in IT-solutions that should be as aligned to the corresponding business challenges as possible. And to be honest - “that ain’t an easy job”...
