No one is really interested to save money. Your kids aren't. Neither is your boss. They're kidding when they told they are. They all want more power, more security, more options, more speed, more free time, more education, more space, more dreams, more friends, more love.
Explorers, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists are not moved by money. They need dollars, euros, rupees, yens or yuans to make dreams happen and visions crystallize. Money before dreams? Ego before vision? These are road signs to decline, indications of no more territory to explore, discovery to make, innovation to offer and original work to undertake.
When the CEO tells the CFO who tells the CIO who tells the IT Director (who tells his suppliers) that she wants to save on IT, she is just joking. What she (he, he or he) wants is faster decision process, shorter implementation, improved flexibility, better customer service, more accurate indicators, more time to think…
This is the key difference between IT or WAN governance approaches and blind cost-cutting programs. Like a good doctor who treats the disease and not (only) its symptoms, holistic approaches address root causes of problems and offer sustainable solutions. At the end of the day, providing pragmatic solutions to oversized resources, inefficient processes, slow applications or disorganized operations is the fastest path to efficiency: Concentrate on cost and quality decreases – focus on quality and costs decrease.
Actually, the truly limited resource is time. Its fundamental limitation shapes every aspect of our life, every decision we (consciously or unconsciously) take. The proverb is wrong: time is much more than money. Who wants to be a millionaire? May be the right question should have been "who need to be a millionaire?"
Illustrations: Louise Bourgeois (Paris 1911 - New-York 2010) – "Give or Take" and "Maman" in front of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. She recently passed away – What a character!
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