Comments on: Business is from Mars and IT is from Venus

By: New Adventures in Wi-Fi – Track 2: Twitter « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:02:58 +0000

[...] and will often advertise this fact. If you have found an interesting blog article – say this one – then scan the site to see if there is a Twitter link; more often than not there will [...]

By: Who should be accountable for data quality? « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:55:52 +0000

[...] As regular readers of this column will know, I view this as an unhelpful distinction. My belief is that IT is a type of business department, with specific skills, but engaged in business work and, in this, essentially no different to say the sales department or the strategy department. Looking at the question through this prism, it becomes tautological. However, if we ignore my peccadillo about this issue, we could instead ask whether responsibility for data quality should reside in IT or not-IT (I will manfully resist the temptation to write ~IT or indeed IT’); with such a change, I accept that this is now a reasonable question. Answering a modified version of the question [...]

By: New Adventures in Wi-Fi – Track 1: Blogging « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:44:26 +0000

[...] article was based on some reflections on attending a Change Management seminar. It was entitled Business is from Mars and IT is from Venus and dealt with what I see as an artificial divide between IT and business groups. I suppose it [...]

By: An update of the most read articles on this site « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:22:43 +0000

[...] Business is from Mars and IT is from Venus [...]

By: Chase Zander IT Director Forum – Report on Meeting and Change Director Invitation « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:35:21 +0000

[...] Change Director Forum (attendance at which moved me to write the very first article on this blog: Business is from Mars and IT is from Venus). This will be held in London on the evening of 9th July 2009 at the following [...]

By: Yet more irony and Wordpress.com advertising « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Mon, 18 May 2009 22:54:32 +0000

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By: Two pictures paint a thousand words… « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:34:31 +0000

[...] is more likely to lead to sustained success? See also: Business is from Mars and IT is from Venus and The scope of IT’s responsibility when businesses go bad. Note: I have just had it [...]

By: The scope of IT’s responsibility when businesses go bad « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:50:56 +0000

[...] thinking along a different line, one that is more closely related to the ideas that I propounded in Business is from Mars and IT is from Venus last year. I started wondering, ‘is it just too easy for IT to say, “the business [...]

By: The latest and greatest versus the valuable « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:38:23 +0000

[...] bold leap here, I think that this fascination with the new and technically cool is one reason that IT managers sometimes feel left out of the inner circle of executives of an organisation. In some people’s minds (sometimes those of influential people) IT is too readily associated [...]

By: My “all-time” most-read 5 articles « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:27:40 +0000

[...] Business is from Mars and IT is from Venus [...]