When IT is Destroying Your Company's Future
A long time ago, before gray hairs appeared on my head, I was an IT manager. My title was B2B E-Commerce Manager for a computer manufacturer. I remember sitting in long meetings discussing how successful Dell Computer was with their just in time manufacturing and just in time supply chains. I also remember our business representatives asking IT if they could develop systems that would allow us to operate in a similar supply chain model and the answers seemed always to be, "NO!" Our IT systems were not set-up to support a real-time environment. Of course the business would then say this must change if we are going to be competitive, and the IT would say then give us the budget to change. Many years after I had moved on, the computer manufacture closed. This manufacturer had never been able to gain freedom from their business-limiting legacy IT environments. I was in England and Scotland last week teaching SMAC strategies (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) to large