{"id":3229,"date":"2012-08-21T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2334298"},"modified":"2012-08-21T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T18:08:00","slug":"hey-it-get-with-the-program-and-make-operations-a-strategic-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hey-it-get-with-the-program-and-make-operations-a-strategic-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey IT! Get with the Program and Make Operations a Strategic Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too often, Information Technology leadership lives in its own world, far removed from business decision-making. This can result in IT being an easy target for blame. If everything goes well, IT is a high-spend cost center. If things go poorly, then IT isn&#8217;t doing its job. Non-strategic IT departments are too often seen as the bad guys\u2014They are an obstacle, a process-loving bureaucratic group that slows everything down\u2026Other departments must find a way around IT in order to launch those pet projects quickly. Now you, the CIO, are caught in a downward spiral, spending more time fighting political battles, less time addressing your organization&#8217;s immediate tech needs and zero time planning for the future. The IT Ops team is in a constant scramble to keep up, overburdened with administrivia and maintaining uptime. In this bleak picture, IT isn\u2019t exactly a potent weapon in the battle for innovation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2334298\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often, Information Technology leadership lives in its own world, far removed from business decision-making. This can result in IT being an easy target for blame. If everything goes well, IT is a high-spend cost center. If things go poorly, then IT &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}