You hit on the reason I pursued OD work. Having been in IT, I saw too many disconnects between the business side and IT, which led to cost overruns, delays, frustrated employees and a lot of hard work going to waste. You add or change a computer system, you are also changing someone’s job.

I even wrote a business parable about the issue and how to resolve it but couldn’t find a publisher. I looked into self-publishing but my problem would have been the promotional part. (Publishing is easy but telling the world you have a book is not, at least with my resources and capabilities.)

I also created workshops to help IT and business communicate better. Long story short, IT often doesn’t fully understand the business and makes its best guess as to what to do and business doesn’t provide clear direction to IT – both sides need to better understand one another.

Keep up the good work!