Comments on: IT Farming http://russaebig.com/directionallycorrect/2010/01/14/it-farming/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Thoughts About the Corporate World We Live In Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Vaughan Merlyn http://russaebig.com/directionallycorrect/2010/01/14/it-farming/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Vaughan Merlyn Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:04:38 +0000 http://russaebig.com/directionallycorrect/?p=813#comment-49 One of my favorite IT professors and researchers, Dr. Peter Weill, talks about "weed pulling." That fits in very nicely to your IT Farming analogy. Farmers (at least if they care about being successful) are diligent about pulling weeds to make space for the crops. CIO's and CTO's are often less dilligent. Unlike Farmers, CIO's are engineers at heart - it's always more interesting to create something new! One of my favorite IT professors and researchers, Dr. Peter Weill, talks about “weed pulling.” That fits in very nicely to your IT Farming analogy. Farmers (at least if they care about being successful) are diligent about pulling weeds to make space for the crops. CIO’s and CTO’s are often less dilligent. Unlike Farmers, CIO’s are engineers at heart – it’s always more interesting to create something new!

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