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How to obtain "strategic personal IT management"?

Aug 14, 2013 10:33AM PDT

How can one move from an always 'operational' state with one's personal IT management ie. having to react to incidents when they arise (ideally) to a 'strategic' state where one is 'on top' of one's management of this?

It would be called something like "strategically oriented personal IT management" or "strategic personal IT management".

I don't entirely know what this 'state' looks like or comprises in terms of knowledge & actions to be performed, but I have read about this, so it does exist.

I would like this, as much as is possible, & as much as is possible for a person not from an IT background— without having to undertake a computing science degree or anything approximating it.

Anyone here heard about such a 'state'? Anyone here doing this themselves? If, so, what does it comprise?

Thanks.

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That's easy.
Aug 15, 2013 2:16AM PDT

To move away from a reactionary support system you would banish all personal computers. Wow, I bet you didn't see that coming. The reason for most support calls is there is a pest, bug or something amiss with a PC.

If you replace them all with task oriented systems then the users are locked down so tightly that nothing can go wrong. You are now on top of it.

This is how it was years ago with mainframes and terminals so we only need to look back to see how to be on top of a strategic system.
Bob

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How to obtain "strategic personal IT management"?
Aug 15, 2013 1:30PM PDT

You have talked about this in terms of historical context, & that the solution was found "back then" on very large systems.
I think that saying look to the past to answer the present problem doesn't do it for me, I am sorry to say. I neither possess a computer science degree nor the level of experience & knowledge you possess.

So, it presently leaves me with a suggestion that I am unqualified & unable to apply. I do not know where to go to from here.

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If that's so.
Aug 15, 2013 2:49PM PDT

You hire the talent you need to move on the project. Even if it's just a computer coach to interpret the lingo.
Bob

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Re: management
Aug 15, 2013 5:16PM PDT

Since the only Google hit for "strategic personal IT management" is for this discussion, it seems you invented the term. Great. Can you tell where you read about it (a link please)?

Why you think that it exists? Last time I read about Cinderella, I realised that reading about something or somebody doesn't necessarily mean it exists.

But I think that - for most people - it boils down to "Do I need a tablet?" or "Will I buy an iPhone or an Android phone?".

Kees