IT Managers make poor decisions on IT projects because they fail to realise the project is a business decision, as well as a technical challenge. This does not surprise me. IT graduates tend to be less business savvy as they should be. To be fair to IT educators, degrees are changing to include business papers in ithe curriculum, but there are significant numbers of IT graduates that have been in the workplace for years with no idea of business. These people are not to be trusted make a potentially business destroying decision. In my experience in a IT degree, I was one of two people taking a business paper and I don't expect a rush of IT students enrolling in business papers next year. IT students are generally not interested in IT.
I've made clear who I think should be making IT decisions. A few things should be considered when making a decision on IT: How much to spend, on what, and to what quality. As long as the money is set aside for it is reasonable, all that has be considered is the value it brings to the business and the appropriateness to the business strategies.
In the future, the IT professional graduating from good institutes today, will be trusted to make the big IT decisions. Until then IT professionals should work hard to earn that trust.
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