By Martin Brampton
Published: Tuesday 09 November 2004
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Name
Nick Cole
Location
Scotland
Occupation
Engineer
Comment
Martin has hit the nail on the head and describes exactly what I have been arguing about for years.
His key statements include business people failing to understand business as well as IT and that the simple answers (demanded by the business) do not work.
Perhaps we are also the victims of too much reliance on rapid promotion and less on real world experience. Many business leaders get all self-protective and dislike the real answers they need because of the challenge to their own assumptions, sometimes seeing them as attacks on their competence!
Many business leaders are too decisive for their own good and fail to reflect holistically about issues.
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