IT Strategy is not enough, what’s about men ?
A recent survey commissioned by the Society for Information Management gave the following concerns for CEO, CIO and enterprise top managers :
1) IT/business alignment
2) Building business skills in IT
3) IT strategic planning
4) Attracting new IT professionals
5) Making better use of information
6) Manage change
7) Reduce the cost of doing business
8) Improve IT quality
9) Retaining IT professionals
10) Security and privacy
Among the high ranked points, 2-4-9 regards human resources management. Indeed, if you have not the right men able to implementing your strategy you ‘ll probably loose most of your bets. Successful companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple,… have build their success on human asset.