This is why IT should always have a seat at the table. I worked at a place where IT was a branch of Finance and therefore didn’t get involved in the big C-level decision making. They had so much technical debt from simply not being involved in any organizational decision (and not being given the light of day for any funding requests because the VP of IT wasn’t as far up the ladder as the President of Safety for example, especially ironic when it was a funding request to fulfill a project request from Safety)
This is why IT should always have a seat at the table. I worked at a place where IT was a branch of Finance and therefore didn’t get involved in the big C-level decision making. They had so much technical debt from simply not being involved in any organizational decision (and not being given the light of day for any funding requests because the VP of IT wasn’t as far up the ladder as the President of Safety for example, especially ironic when it was a funding request to fulfill a project request from Safety)