The IT Value Stack Assertions
Below you will find 24 assertions from The IT Value Stack. These can be used as the basis for an interview with the author, Ade McCormack, either by phone or email.
1. IT
is too important to be abdicated to the IT department.
2. The IT department should be denied a budget.
3. The only true measure of IT value is share price.
4. The IT industry needs to raise its emotional intelligence.
5. The CIO needs to spend less time on IT.
6. The CIO should be the CEO.
7. Most CIOs are not boardroom-ready.
8. IT is a people business.
9. Technologists need to morph into business process specialists.
10. The CIO should drive business strategy rather than being a victim
of it.
11. MBA courses need to put IT at the core of the syllabus.
12. Those on the business side need to become more techno-savvy.
13. The IT department as a physical entity needs to end.
14. The end is nigh for the IT industry in its current form.
15. Business-IT alignment is not enough. Nothing less than entwinement
is required.
16. The IT industry needs to grow up.
17. The IT department has a role to play as the boardroom’s ‘keep
me out of prison’ function.
18. True IT Governance is rarely practiced.
19. Tech vendors rarely understand what they are selling.
20. Some tech vendors have more influence over IT strategy than the CIO.
21. Most functions that support the IT function are out of their depth,
eg HR, Procurement.
22. The value chain that turns IT value into business value is invariably
broke in many places.
23. Most IT departments are politically naive.
24. The IT department needs to get its PR act together.
