Have you ever noticed my tag line? It reads “Better Leaders in Enterprise Technology.” It doesn’t read “Better Leaders in Information Technology.” Why did I do that? There are two primary reasons: scale and scope.

Enterprise scale

Most companies midsize and up have some sort of IT department. While there’s nothing wrong with working in a small shop, all of my experience has been in large corporations with more than a few billion dollars in revenue. Since I don’t have much experience working in small shops, I focus on what I do know.

I like enterprise scale. Sure, working for large corporations can be a grind, but I like to focus on the opportunity. You get to work with large teams and significant resources to solve really big problems. That’s pretty fun. I can’t do this stuff in my garage. With this comes all sorts of leadership challenges, which drive the topics I write about each week.

All technology, not just Information Technology

In my mind, Information Technology is a department and Enterprise Technology is a subject. Enterprises have a lot more technology in the business than just what the IT department creates and runs. With shadow IT, cloud services, industrial internet of things, and digital business, technology is everywhere.

I have a passion for all technology in the enterprise environment, inside and outside of the IT department. Some of it I directly influence, other aspects I attempt to influence from afar. All of it poses interesting opportunities and leadership challenges. If there are electrons flowing through it, I’m all about it.

Should we rename IT?

I don’t think that’s necessary. I do think we need to embrace and extend our role as technology champions for the digital transformation of the business. IT is a pretty well-established name for the core services we provide out of the corporate HQ.

Mindshift from IT to T

There is so much technology innovation going on across the enterprise landscape. IT is comfortable with LANs, laptops, file servers, and ERP systems. Enterprise technology is everything. Drones, IoT, mixed reality, machine learning, and every other technology buzzword. I want to be wherever there is technology disrupting business. How about you?