The old dinosaurs
There has been a joke that between my colleague and myself. Across the many clients that we meet in our professional career, there are some people who are in the senior management of companies but do not even understand the basics of IT (I am sure they are really good at what they are doing though). We call them “the old dinosaurs”.
Let me define what “old dinosaurs” mean. Its a general term to refer those that do not know much about technology (even though many of them work in a technology related industry) AND are not willing / adaptive to technology changes. Many of them still rely on multi-megabytes spreadsheets that only they understand themselves and refuse to use any systems that were not developed in their times.
However, when we start to tell them about dollars and cents and how Enterprise 2.0 can help them make more $$. They generally open up and like to hear more about the approach, strategy and technology. Sometimes, they buy in to such changes but still do not use them extensively. They still prefer to go back to their good’o spreadsheet – nothing wrong with that, they are just comfortable in their comfort zone. However, I hope I do not become one in future.
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