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…