As Jim Collins tells us in one of his 8 steps/concepts in going from a "good to great" company....it is imperative that organizations confront the facts and deal with them. One of those facts that face us is is well defined in this quote that I ran across recently:
" Technology professionals simply do not have the time and money to waste on reinventing the wheel." (Ron Haberkorn NOREX Founder & President )
All too often I think we as technology professionals waste valuable time trying to figure out the solutions to issues that have already been figured out. We provide more value when we solve issues by applying known solutions and focusing our efforts towards solving issues that do not have existing solutions for them.
Our value as IT employees is in providing technology solutions period...Frankly we DON'T gain any "bonus points" when the solution to the problem is devised in-house. We just need to provide solutions to technology issues...nobody really cares if it's our idea or whether we learned how to fix the issue from somewhere else. They just care about us getting it fixed or in providing a solution that helps them with the issue.
The takeaway? Don't be afraid to check with other resources to see if the issue you are working on has been dealt with before. If it has...you're in luck, problem solved. If not, you've only invested a very small amount of time and you can then focus you entire efforts towards devising a solution on your own.
If I have my choice over the one who THINKS they have all the answers versus the one who can FIND me all the answers.....I'll opt for the one who knows where to get answers any day....
TAFN
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