How many of you are on the Board of your company? How many of you report to “IT Savvy” managers? How many of you have Board members who are “IT Savvy”? The survey says…
Here’s a proposal. You are opening a restaurant, please do not hire a chef – let “blue blooded, well connected” MBA’s run the show for you. How does that grab ya or shall we say fry ya?
Now, start a baseball team without athletes – let your front office play the games. Your chances of winning? Have you seen the “professional writer free” late night shows lately? If someone did not tell me they were to entertain I would have thought they were intended to bore someone to death – when I was not yawning, I was throwing up!
If you think, these are ludicrous examples then think again. For all the noise about “IT is a strategic” weapon, fortune 500 companies do not have that expertise on the board! Yes, only 8% admitted to having “IT skills” on their boards. Say what?
We have moved mountains trying to “maximize IT value,” and get the “biggest bang for the IT buck” but little by way of giving wings to this dream. How does a board without IT skills manage organizations whose strategic weapon is IT?
Your guess is as good as mine. But I don’t have time to talk about this any more, gotta cook something. Since I don’t know how to, I will have to supervise someone. Whadda ya say, People?
