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Story: IT skills gap costs Britain billions

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How does any of this relate to “IT workers”?

The decisions that cause major IT project failures are almost always caused by senior level business people and have more to do with personal power politics than technical issues.

In all the IT failures that I am familiar with, experienced “IT workers” knew well ahead of time that the project was doomed but could do nothing to prevent it. The fault lay entirely with senior personnel who had little or no knowledge of technology.

We need to abandon the belief that an MBA substitutes for domain knowledge. Would you want an MBA performing heart surgery on you?

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