Businesspeople, according to a recent post at the Harvard Business Review’s blog, don’t like to work with IT.
Here’s proof:
- 75% of business leaders recognize the critical importance of IT.
- 30% identify IT needs when developing strategies
- 8% are held accountable for IT success.
- Internal technology is one of only four items that measurably affects firm performance
- It’s #16 out of 20 on a survey of the things business leaders believe will improve performance.
Is it really that business leaders dislike IT? We think that the negative feeling toward technology stems from not knowing how to work with it.
Here’s another number for you: only 27% of business leaders feel smart about IT. How much do you enjoy doing things that make you feel stupid?
At Clevertech, we have tech people with top business school degrees. We know how rare it is to be equally proficient with both. Our marginal utility is in translating the management and financial speak into technology.
We do this for our clients with custom software and systems. But we’re planning to share our proven abilities in this area in a seminar in the near future.
We’re currently preparing the seminar, “How to Get More Out of Your IT,” for the New York City area.We’ll be focusing on both personal productivity and business productivity, through technology.
First, we’ll be looking at ways that readily accessible technology can increase personal productivity, reduce stress, and improve your work life:
- Why the browser you choose matters, and how extensions can amaze you.
- Ways your phone can be something you swear by — not at.
- The inside tricks that make your computer your partner in productivity.
- Free tools and services that enrich your workday.
- Things your mail program can do for you that you never knew it could.
Then we’ll be looking at business technology — whether you do it yourself or go to your IT department and say, “Why don’t I have this?” — that will supercharge your company’s productivity:
- How defining processes properly can fast track the rest of the process.
- The difference the user interface makes.
- What iterative processes and exception handling can do for you.
- Why your IT department should be using Javascript to make your life easier.
- How data visualization can revolutionize your systems.
And much more. If you’d like to stay in the loop on the details of this event, contact us and we’ll make sure you get the word.
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