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So what skills are necessary to optimize the business-technology relationship in the early 21st century?
How do you want to be remembered? Not that you're going anywhere soon, but if you were to define company roles going forward, what would they look like? The data we've been tracking for a while now suggests that big changes are in the works, that business technology is bifurcating into at least two broad categories: operational and strategic technology.
We hear, almost daily, the phrases "business value," "business drivers," "IT value," and many other such words applied to the "connecting business to IT" discussion. Unfortunately, these phrases are often used as if the world has reached consensus on what they mean, how they can be defined in a given company, and what a manager can do to understand them in his or her own context. We all know that this just isn't true; and in fact, the vagueness of the definition often clouds the discussion, rather than helping it along.