The Golden Age of Drive-Thru IT
The True Potential of IT and How IT Sells Itself Short
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Information Technology organizations/departments within medium and large sized companies have become complacent and not providing value that Technology is capable of. In short, the book focuses on how IT does not rise to its true potential and sells itself short.
The book, titled The Golden Age of Drive-Thru IT, is targeted for aspiring IT managers, non-managerial IT staff as well as business and IT leaders. It takes a bottom-up approach to looking at IT and not a top-down view of IT. True technology work happens in the trenches and not in the ivory towers of C-level executive offices. As a result, it is important to look at ground level realities and understand day-to-day workings of an IT organization to truly rise above the ether of mediocrity that companies get stuck in.
Consumer technology continues to evolve every day but business technology not so much. While technology can be a strategic enabler, many Technology or IT departments continue to be considered cost centers and necessary overhead with none but IT to blame.
IT organizations have to create and live up to an image and offer new ideas that are relevant in this new digital world. IT has to think of solutions and profits and not only projects that someone else should define and identify for them. IT has to execute Strategy on a daily basis and not simply work on requirements.
IT has to generate ideas that start from the ground up and leverage the right team members for the right solutions. Ideas that innovate and motivate. Ideas that create opportunities and increase profits. Ideas that reduce risk, overhead, and cost.
Innovative ideas and smart, enthusiastic contributors are what will allow IT transformations to take place. IT organizations have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk by hiring a smart work force and maintain fluidity in operations. IT can be Information Technology, Innovative Tactics or Idea Teams. Any way you look at it, IT has to reinvent itself and rise to its true potential and stop selling itself short.
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Personal technology continues to evolve every day, but business technology does not follow that trend. Business IT is often treated as a necessary evil that can’t be relied upon to take companies to the next level in their corporate evolution. In The Golden Age of Drive-Thru IT, author Kedar Sathe offers useful, wide-ranging, and imaginative advice about how to revive and strengthen IT departments.
Sathe, who has been programming computers since age fourteen, discusses how businesses must establish and execute new IT strategies to maintain and increase their bottom line. The Golden Age of Drive-Thru IT describes various aspects of technology and how IT can rise to every occasion and become a strategic enabler. It shows how IT can become nimble and flexible, yet produce robust and graceful solutions that allow companies to drive toward success in an efficient and enriching fashion.
The Golden Age of Drive-Thru IT communicates how innovative ideas and smart, enthusiastic contributors will allow IT transformations to take place, reinvent itself, rise to its true potential, and stop selling itself short.
About the Author
Kedar Sathe earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Osmania University College of Technology, Hyderabad, India, and a master’s degree in chemical engineering from University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette. Throughout his academic and professional career, Sathe has developed software to capitalize on business opportunities and solve real-life problems.