I had another revelation today about the Information Technology industry this morning.
The best IT people are those who are business~centric. It means that no matter how good your technical expertise are, you must be able to sell your ideas. If you cannot communicate why your technology/product is useful to a business, you are not going anywhere.
This is a really big hurdle for me since I've been accumulating skills since the day I started in university. And, to top it off, I'm really hesitant about a sales role. It is not that I'm shy or am not confident in public... my contemporaries will attest to that. This is simply because of my ego... I have this superiority complex that I really should do something about. I am probably this way 'cause computers are a skill that not many people acquire. Especially when you get really technical.
I can tell my clients what information technology is all about. I can explain the concepts, theory and methodology. I can tell my client how to go about doing something. But, I will probably never answer my client's questions of why should he listen to me.
This day was a real eye opener to me. Thank you Maurice Abi-Raad.
"Computer science today is poised to do all these amazing things," Bill Gates told students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently... excerpt from a BLS report, April 2005.
I'm pretty confident about the future...
The best IT people are those who are business~centric. It means that no matter how good your technical expertise are, you must be able to sell your ideas. If you cannot communicate why your technology/product is useful to a business, you are not going anywhere.
This is a really big hurdle for me since I've been accumulating skills since the day I started in university. And, to top it off, I'm really hesitant about a sales role. It is not that I'm shy or am not confident in public... my contemporaries will attest to that. This is simply because of my ego... I have this superiority complex that I really should do something about. I am probably this way 'cause computers are a skill that not many people acquire. Especially when you get really technical.
I can tell my clients what information technology is all about. I can explain the concepts, theory and methodology. I can tell my client how to go about doing something. But, I will probably never answer my client's questions of why should he listen to me.
This day was a real eye opener to me. Thank you Maurice Abi-Raad.
"Computer science today is poised to do all these amazing things," Bill Gates told students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently... excerpt from a BLS report, April 2005.
I'm pretty confident about the future...
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