A Foundational Organizing Principle, for IT!?

No, seriously, I actually mean it. We’ve all heard the consulting world stumping about corporate vision mission and values being necessary for business success. And what company that completes these exercises doesn’t have something that says they value people (employees, customers, both)? Especially here in the USA, where most industry pundits talk about supporting knowledge workers as being a holy grail for management.

So given that you value employees, their talents and creativity and want to support their knowledge work, what is your foundational principle for Information technology? I wager that most of you do not have one. Actually, more to the point, you do, but instead of formulating it yourself, it was delivered to you by your hardware/software vendors.

Read the rest on my blog.  Originally published Feb, 2011.