By: Tom Gill, Frank Popielas and Fred Keith
CIMdata raised a prickly issue last November that precious few people in technology want to deal with. This issue is politics, specifically the ins and outs of cost-justifying a big project, securing resources, launching the implementation, and sustaining its momentum.
The difficulties surface when several would-be project leaders vie among themselves for resources: funds, support from information technology (IT), and management backing. Industry analysts and marketing people usually posit that “silos of expertise” are the No. 1 problem. A recent workshop convinced us otherwise, that silos and their well-documented speed bumps are symptoms of a more fundamental problem, politics. (…)
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