Social Media For Suits

April 13th, 2010

IT Departments

Many organisations and companies spend a lot of money on people to manage their IT needs. Whether you outsource or have an in-house department, ask yourself : are they really doing their job?

IT exist to do two things :

• protect—they do this rather well
• enable—they do this rather badly

Imagine if your IT department facilitated internal workshops on a regular basis, with a focus on enabling you and your team to explore the latest online offerings and tools. In turn you acquire new skills to connect directly with your customer / clients / audiences, collaborate better, and save money.

When we deliver our training through our little sister company MediaSnackers, we're constantly running into the constraints of IT policies or uninformed IT officers who see social media as a threat to the controls they administer, when really they should embrace the opportunity to become change agents and leaders in your organisation / company.

So, at the next quarterly IT review or monthly meeting, take another glance at the image above and ask yourself what type of IT department you want to pay for…

Image credit to Gapingvoid