But moving from enabling the business to being the business is challenging work. It means changing governance models, organizational structures, delivery methodologies and hiring practices. It means transforming IT people from technologists to strategists, from constructing hard lines around IT to creating an environment devoid of organizational boundaries, and from clamping down on employees attempts to develop their own technology to embracing end-user innovation. It also means driving change in the most difficult of all arenas: the mindset, the psyche, the most deeply held ways that we understand our jobs, our success, and our professional identity. . Martha Heller
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The challenge of driving change is like trying to remove a brick from a wall. You can do it in one place, but the job becomes exponentially more difficult as you go around the brick. How do you remove the brick? First you have to identify where it is and then you have to figure out how to remove it. So, what is the brick? It's our mindset and psyche about IT and IT solutions.

Secondly, we need to remove the wall that we've constructed around IT solutions. We need to figure out how we can keep our customers and partners at ease with our products and services, and we need to find ways to meet their evolving business needs and challenges. So how do you remove a brick from a wall? You can’t; it’s not physically possible; but when you get rid of the brick, you eliminate a barrier between your company’s success and success in the marketplace.

Source: Be The Business: Cios In The New Eras Of It

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