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Results from the CIO Executive Council’s ‘Power of Effective IT Communication’ benchmark survey indicate that IT teams lack the talent to communicate. This results in a state of crisis between IT and non-IT employees, which could prove disastrous in this era of unparalleled digital disruption. "What we've got here is failure to communicate"
Yes. Yes I did have to use that quote.
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...it's not the IT teams that lack communication skills.
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 Let's not have reality step into corporate stereotypes now 
TTFN - Kent
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Jeff Brown:
You nailed it
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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For real! We can communicate just fine. It's just that we speak English (or whatever the native language is), not management buzzword-speak like mindless jakka birds....
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Yes, there is a huge problem with this, but not all IT people socially inept. I find that business users are many times looking to push their weight around, because they don't understand what that want in a software product. Also, I sometimes see business people being difficult because they are scared IT will eliminate the need for their jobs.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This results in a state of crisis between IT and non-IT employees, which could prove disastrous in this era of unparalleled digital disruption.
Been there, expereince it right now. The problem isn't always IT people failing to communicate, but users who lack even a basic grasp of what a computer is and what it can do. See, if you let a user use a specialized scanning and interpreting solution when he/she can't even create a new folder in the file system, there is a lot of training left to do. And the user doesn't always wants to be trained (not even talking about seeing the need of training efforts - "I was able to use it to check my emails, I'm a PC expert"-mentality) because it's easier to just blame the software.
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I fail to see why this problem is being blamed on IT. Communication is a two way dialog. IT is one of those areas that impacts the entire business due to its cross-cutting nature. It is therefore not easily understood by those who are more used to focussing on their own single area of the business i.e. finance, HR etc. IT is also by its very nature a technical area, so anyone without a technical background will likely fail to grasp the basic concepts and ideas.
It all too easy to blame other people and departments. Maybe a closer look in the mirror and taking personal responsibility is needed.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Hi,
This sounds resonable, but it must come from both sides. Once I was evaluating sofware for lawyers and the makers of it wanted them to learn regular expressions ...  Not a realistic expectation in my view. So, we (IT) must (also) take responsiblity if we want the users to be happy ...Indeed communicating to non-specialists is a challenge, but it must be possible.
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See my second sentence.
Quote: Communication is a two way dialog
I was bringing balance to the discussion, unlike the article which seemed to want to lay the blame on IT.
I agree that trying to communicate complex technical ideas to the non technical is challenging. I am sure many scientists have discovered this too. Some are better at it than others.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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And it's not just the IT field either.
Let's just face it, communicating clearly is a skill not many people possess.
You can say the truth, and say it clear, but if you say it in a wrong tone, or with a wrong expression on your face, the message won't land, or worse, people will actively refuse the message!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that IT teams lack the talent to communicate.
Or maybe just nobody is listening.
Marc
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Microsoft has no immediate plans to let its new browser out of Windows 10. Walled gardens are pretty when they're in bloom
Not entirely surprising, but a Windows 7 version would be nice
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a Windows 7 version would be nice
Now, who would be enticed to upgrade to Windows 10 if they gave out a Weven version?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Windows 10 When
 FTFY
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Their competitors aren't the main thing keeping him awake at night. They're not worried about Bing?
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No matter where you are in the internet, you get the same answer
So location based search services are also wrong? 
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Quote: Imagine instead of Mac OS you have 100 different Mac OSs, one for every country. And then the whole ecosystem breaks down, because as an app developer, you have to qualify your app for every one of these hundred. The whole economy and the rate of innovation breaks down.
Imagine if instead of one Linux OS you have 100 different Linux OSs for every country...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They are worried that some government in the future will prevent them from doing something.
..and then they come with telephone-COMPANIES putting pressure on government as argumentation. Yes, I completely agree with the two, companies have way too much influence over government and the laws they make. They prove that point nearly every, single day.
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Finalizers are interesting and dangerous because they are an environment in which everything you know is wrong. "It's the final countdown"
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Great read, please post parts 2+ when they're up.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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During Build 2015, Microsoft released Flight Arcade, inspired by the original Microsoft Flight Simulator and designed to show off the new web experiences with Microsoft's newest browser Edge. Utilizing WebGL, WebAudio, and GamePad API, this new simulation experience works amazingly well on the Microsoft Edge browser. "How high can you fly? You'll never, never, never reach the sky"
Seems to work fine in Chrome as well
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