It seems that whenever I talk to businesspeople about IT I hear the same old, never-ending refrain: IT people are too technically oriented. They don’t speak in business terms. And it’s not just the business managers who feel this way. Most IT leaders agree that their teams don’t speak the language of business. Pundits, gurus, […]
When we last left our CIO, Christine, she was on her way to the quarterly steering committee unsure of how to handle an SAP expansion project that is over budget and taking way too much time. She just bumped into her consultant, Martin, and hoped that he could give her some sage advice on how […]
Meet Christine, the CIO at a midsize manufacturing company. Christine is a year into an 18-month, $2 million SAP expansion, and, to put it mildly, things aren’t going as planned. In fact, the real problem is that this project is never going to go as planned. We’ll join Christine’s thoughts as she makes her way […]
