Last post I talked about how the strong cultural bond in IT departments (and nerd/geek culture in general), can damage organizational trust, cohesion, general pleasantness and ultimately profit. Now let’s look at drilling down into the rest of the organization…
How IT and Geek Culture Can Cause Problems
Last time I explored some of the reasons why we as IT folk tend to stick together. I also talked a bit about how culture can both allow you to thrive with your own kind, but also fail to see…
IT Cultural Fluency
As a factor in (sales, service, software and technology adoption, costs, collaboration, innovation etc) The issue: What you don’t know CAN hurt you. We all wear blinkers (“blinders” in US English). These are hard-wired, in the sense that we can’t…
Steps in Creating Buy-In for New Software and Technologies
In my last three posts, here (1st) and here (2nd), I’ve discussed the issues surround creating buy-in to new software and technology projects. Basically what that means is that you can spend a whole lot of money on the coolest…
Training and Project Management in Creating Buy-In for new Technology
In my last post I laid a foundation of doom and gloom as to how a good project can go very bad when people don’t actually use the cool new toys they’ve been given. Lets have a look at what…
Issues in Creating Buy-in to New Software and Technology
There are few things more frustrating in business than putting in good new technology or software systems, and seeing them fail because your people will not use them. The industry failure rate for new implementations is estimated to be greater…