Long gone are the days when a select few held the keys to the computer room door, through which only the chosen could enter and receive the blessings of prescribed knowledge on reams of green and white listing paper– or are they?

Many businesses are still in the thrall of IT managers who maintain a mystic about what they do and manage to keep a team of “experts” around them to deliver less than spectacular results.

Keeping up with today’s technology, let alone tomorrows, is all but impossible for an individual.

Instead, partnerships can be built with service providers who can deliver those elements of IT more consistently and cheaply than the traditional in house approach.

IT and system management should be sub-contracted  in the same way office cleaning is. There are just too many more important things to be doing.

Businesses should instead be employing Information Managers (IM’s) who have responsibility to deliver real time information in a form that time hungry decision makers can easily digest.

This is a long way from just making sure the backup works and the printers do not jam.

Secure, reliable, flexible and cost effective solutions are now available for all areas of a business, and all you need is an Internet connection.

Broadband and Data Centres are changing the face of IT delivery across the world. Those companies which do not face up to these changes risk becoming irrelevant in the market places of tomorrow.

Move on from worrying about IT to delivering on IM. A great Information Manager is a hugely valuable asset to a business and the difference that he or she can make to the bottom line should always be appreciated.

The IT Manager is dead, long live the Information Manager!

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