IT documents comes with different names such as the following: - Manual or handbook, - Policies and procedures, - Management systems, - Project plans. In the real world we have various names with unique descriptions and purposes when in fact they could be made to do a uniform direction for which actions are based for the entire IT initiatives, probably the longest in IT lifecycle is operation. The problem is our inclination on something else which is wrong. IT remains an IT area. Business remains a business area. The same problem is carried out when we conduct IT audit. Most audit are missing the gists in which IT is being used by businesses. We once said that an effective IT audit is conducted by IT people themselves but there is something wrong with that even. Business and accounting people have been doing it with a different bias and preconceived notions which doesn't make the cut for IT direction and audit respectively. Leaders play the same game and so the problem continues an
Within IT makes the job near perfect. Nowadays, at least, there is no such thing as perfect solution for any business-IT tandem. There is, however, stability for which the production systems and that business operations with IT is predictable.
Practice is different from simply accumulating experience which can be misleading as a measure how people are being hired for the job. Practice is a conscious activity that anyone can do in their respective assignments and responsibilities. It is taking with the deepest of understanding and making sure the best known performance are met with certainty. That is dependent on who's got persistency and perseverance. Sometimes an idea how to go through it. And training, it's the best way to equip people and make them discover, guided, with unpopular ground.
With IT practice, it is to assure stakeholders of the solutions and services that are being acquired will not be for naught and further enable a constraint within the organization's ability to run its own business.
Meaning an IT practitioner have found its way to apply business systems not based on technical specifications but within the organization's strategy and business design requirements. It's doing the technical aspect of the the job and implementing it within the context of business. No more no less.
Any experience, not the copycat, must match doing the job, and better, should be able to take responsibility, ownership and can depend why it is the only outcome acceptable for the organization at that point in time. Even with technology revolutionizing our work there are still limitations and those must their own justification.
An acquisition of sophisticated technology doesn't turn things for the better automatically so. Hiring technical staff no matter how senior and numerous they are, with their experience doesn't make it so. Contracting a vendor to do it can only last so long. Company policies and management systems are short sighted; systems administration, business platforms and applications; and their integrations are sloppy. They are not sustainable and the number one cause of executives whining for expenses. Yet, they can't do anything to address it. Processes continue to be on status quo. And the IT industry is in disparate state, too, due to this fact.
It's the holistic exercise and best-in-class IT solutions and services that is. It is the very essence of innovation, knowledge economy and technological advances in society. It cannot be without everyone not working to be taught appropriately, not being allowed to practice and do their artistry in decision-making independently which is most effective in teamwork with IT or any business/societal-enabler there is. Read and practice, that's for humans to do a strategic, effective and efficient business systems. This is especially more tempting, nowadays, to do more and use what had been a built-in mechanism in humans, maybe. We must stay advance to deal with AI purposely and positively impacting lives. We need proper, thoughtful and trustworthy guidance to get incorruptible outcome.
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