You're still spending 75% of your IT budget on maintenance, your CEO still treats you as a bit of an outsider, and the closest you get to strategic involvement is implementing it rather than helping develop it. If you don't see the interlinked connections among those three conditions, Bob Evans says, then it's time to wake up.
What's the biggest threat to your career? What's the one ugly problem you need to really get your arms around before it gets its claws around your neck? Well, forgive me for crashing your own private nightmare, but I think last week I learned what it is. The bad news is, it's so pervasive and deeply entrenched that truly radical measures will be required to dig it out; the good news is, if you can vanquish this Alien-type monster, you will be a hero for years to come.
The Threat can be expressed in financial terms and in behavioral terms, and the two descriptions are equally valid. And each situation is, for both you and your company, equally dangerous. In addition, each description is one you've no doubt heard about, read about, and discussed many times. Perhaps after each of those discussions, you've promised to get to it tomorrow or next week or next month; perhaps you've dismissed it as outside your control and your team's purview; perhaps you're convinced it somehow just isn't relevant to your situation; or perhaps you've figured that since it affects every company, it's not really that big a deal.
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