Chances are, you are time-poor. Indeed, despite the advances in mobile communications, cloud services, intelligent gizmos and the like, you are more time-poor than you’ve ever been. Less time to think, less time to plan, less time to learn, less time to get out of work and go and have fun instead.
The IT industry is trying to sell you stuff. Stuff that makes IT go faster, stuff that’s cheaper, and more secure. Stuff that will save your organisation money, reduce delay and ineffiency in business processes, and requires less skill from IT operators and users alike. So you buy it…perhaps?
But what you really want is more space and time. Your own Flux-Capacitor™ that will suspend the laws of motion and let you clear the decks so you can concentrate on what really matters in your job; namely, realising the value you can bring about by applying IT in fiendishly clever ways.
OK so the Flux-Capacitor might be just snake-oil, but there are real strategies you can pursue, and technologies you can adopt, that will dissolve the fire-fighting duties and increase the proportion of time you can spend upon progressive IT strategy.
This blog is here to comment upon pertinent topics, inform and possibly even inspire IT professionals – from sysadmins to CIOs – to find ways of taking your intellect away from the meat-grinder and into the microwave. If most of your time today is spent on ‘essential’ IT operations work, then you risk suffocating that meagre percentage remaining that exists for IT innovation.
We’re working on it, but if you’ve got any ideas to contribute and share in the meantime then please let us know.
