－The cooperation between business managers and IT
The importance of managers in a business doesn’t need to be emphasized, because we all know that clearly as crystal. However, what needs to be stressed is the significance of IT to a business and why it matters for managers to communicate effectively with the IT division.
As time goes by, IT grows faster and larger. Its influence is expanding far beyond the IT industry. Nearly all the large-scale institutions have their own independent IT department. Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan economist and digital-business expert, once said“ IT is revolutionizing innovation. ” Undoubtedly, innovation is a key factor leading to success in business. In this way, IT plays an undeniably crucial role, especially, as the global economy develops, contemporary business is dealing with enormous numbers that couldn’t be imagined in the past when business was limited within certain regions. What’s more, IT not only can help a business to deal with mass statistics, but also to get access into insights if you know how to analyze numbers.
“Data integration was the real challenge.”
－ Mr. Isson, Monster Worldwide Inc.’s global vice-president of predictive analytics and business intelligence
Now I come down to the relationship between managers and IT. The standard of evaluating a manager’s success is how well they do to encourage all employees to cooperate as a team.The motivation of a good manager is power, the influence of stimulating staff to realize the whole organizational objectives. Hence, it’s managers’ responsibility to communicate effectively with the IT division. After all, what produces perfect performance is seamless collaboration, which needs efforts from both directions.
Sources:
http://hbr.org/2003/01/power-is-the-great-motivator/ar/1
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/it-innovation-brynjolfsson-article/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology
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