The Nizam Report ™ -- Where Ideas and Strategies are Front and Center ...



(Edition: No. 2014 - 1 -- Feb 10)

 

For the inaugural edition of the Nizam Report, I would like to discuss an issue of utmost concern and interest for organizations, corporations, or institutions now and for the foreseeable future: technology.  There is a great deal of anxiety, uncertainty, and reservation surrounding this issue when it comes up during planning and procurement meetings at any level or hierarchy of a given organization.  More and more, technology is a greater percentage of an organization’s budget, especially when a few years later, the upgrading scenario or case enters or re-enters the budgeting equation.  A larger proportion of this anxiety, uncertainty, and reservation concerning technology can be attributed to the complex selection process, varied choices, and eventual decision pertaining to a particular technology under question or consideration.  And the main reason for this strenuous existence, circumstance, and environment is the inherent idea of ‘change’ embodied in a technology.  In other words, any situation involving a technology decision implies a change is imminent and forthcoming or a change is lying around and patiently waiting on the horizon ready to spring into action and turn things up-side down for the organization and its entire workforce and for the organization’s culture especially.  Accordingly, technology management (or change management) continuously plays a central role in an organization.  In fact, ineffective, inefficient, half-hearted attempts at technology management (or change management) can have disastrous, irreversible outcomes and system consequences for an organization, including the need to scale down operations, or close down certain operations, or may be even ceasing to exist as an organization altogether.  (continued ...)