James and I interviewed each other to tee up our third season. Our theory: IT can’t keep up with the business. Our question: why? Lots of things floating around. Ideas. Half-formed questions. Ponderings from earlier in our respective careers. 

What will we discover? Who will we talk with along the way? FIND OUT MORE this season on Switched On!

The guests are: us! We interviewed ourselves! We found us very insightful.

Highlights

• IT has capabilities on an unprecedented scale these days. Where does it go wrong in meeting up with the business?
• Fusion/multi-disciplinary teams that focus on the business with shades of tech and biz skills are the ideal mix. We think.
• Is centralized IT itself part of the problem?
• So much tooling in any job these days requires general computing skills, that the business is gaining tech skill faster than IT is gaining business skill
• Several super-interesting guests and stories this season:
• A startup (hardware AND software) in warehouse SaaS
• A VP of IT at a mid-size
• Logistics wizard
• …and more!

Money Quotes

James

It’s kind of the elephant in the room at so many customers, and Bowdark too.

The hard work is figuring out what the business needs.

Paul

The business appears to have its needs move faster than IT can move to sweep the list clean.

Is it the right time for there to be Accounting IT and HR IT, only beholden to themselves for choices in processes and tools? 

The cloud is the tech piece that makes it so IT departments can be less techie.