Re: Is IT growth slowing?

Subject: Re: Is IT growth slowing?
From: Elna Tymes <etymes -at- lts -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:10:15 -0700



Scott Turner wrote:

> The question becomes, what has IT brought to the table? To many
> end-users, IT has mearly meant another level of uncaring, unhearing,
> and largely ignorant people who have a great say over how everyone
> does things. I find no value added when I have to produce printed
> materials, and am faced with software and compatiblity problems, and
> the IT department cannot, and will not assist me. If they are touting
> themselves as all-knowing they had better provide some assistance.
>
> Sour grapes is not the problem. It is IT
> directors/managers/personnel/ who have hyped what they can do and
> then fail to deliver in spectacular ways.
>
> Don't tell me what I need to use to get my job done, help me get the
> tools that fit my requirements, and then support them. If you are
> supporting postscript printing, learn about postscript printers. If
> your customers need a solution, provide it.

Lest there be any confusion about what I meant by "IT" I was referring to the
entire IT industry, not just IT departments within engineering or other
companies. Product development across the Information Technology industry is
being questioned as to whether it's cost-effective. Customers across the board
are apparently saying that incremental improvements in an existing information
product aren't worth the time and money.

This, of course, has a major impact on technical writers, who generally depend
on a development environment to generate the need for documentation.

Elna Tymes


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