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07.10.07
Diary of a Tired CTO
 By
Thejendra BS
Dear Diary,
I did the following things this month.
Met fourteen different IT vendors who gave an impressive high impact presentation
on how their products and services can guarantee cost effective, cutting edge,
optimized, and seamless, business value in tune with our strategic goals.
Rejected three vendors as their presentations were not in line with strategic
customer oriented initiatives to suit next generation business clients.
Had a detailed discussion (for the 636th time) with all business stakeholders
on how our latest strategic initiatives can totally align IT to suit business
needs and deliver increasing business value with constant innovation in our journey
to the Promised Land.
Attended sixteen best practice security seminars on how to accurately protect
my company data from viruses, spyware, hackers, worms, phishers, trojans, malware,
spammers, data center disasters, database errors, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods,
data corruption, bomb attacks, snipers, power failures, wars, alien attacks, corporate
frauds, information theft, lawsuits, bird flu, mad cow disease, political turmoil,
human mistakes, computer errors, and a few other threats.
Some day I must organize all my 13945 best practice white papers by industry
experts on how exactly to align my IT department to cut across traditional business
lines, reduce TCO and elegantly simplify our business processes.
Renamed my slave sized technical support department to Strategic Enterprise
Customer Orientation Services in order to strengthen brand equity, increase shareholder
value, and improve customer satisfaction to progress towards a coherent service
oriented organization.
Sent an umpteenth reminder to my team members to clearly define, document,
organize and prepare accurate processes of their jobs and tasks to make it easy
for outsourcing. Wonder why my team is not co-operating even when I am communicating
so well.
Declined an invite to fifteen seminars on the strategic benefits of early adoption
of new emerging technologies. Thought I would wait till they fully emerge from
wherever they are emerging.
Added one new business jargon sentence "Key transition leader and catalyst
for enhancing customer centric business landscapes" to make my resume look
good.
Must stop pulling my hair for every network glitch and computer error. Wife
and kids not happy with balding, short-tempered daddy.
About the Author:
Thejendra BS is an IT manager & consultant for a software development firm in Bangalore, India. Starting as a field engineer in the previous century, he has 17+ years experience in a variety of IT roles like Support, Helpdesk, DRP-BCP, Asset Management, IT Security, etc., and has worked in India, Middle East, Singapore and Australia. In addition, he also writes humor, technical and serious management topics, and strongly believes humor is the most powerful of all leadership styles. His articles have appeared on reputed websites like geekleaders.com, drj.com, sourcingmag.com and many ezines. He has written two books on IT Service Management and Disaster Recovery (available on www.itgovernance.co.uk) and a series of nutty Business Humor books called CORPORATE WARDROBE, available on www.ebookomatic.com. Contact the author on thejendra@yahoo.com.
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