Are you too focused on the little stuff?

It's very easy for IT executives to get caught up in many of the small details of the job and lose sight of the big strategic picture. Unfortunately, too many technology leaders may be in this state as they struggle to keep up with fast-paced changes, try to lessen the impact of tight budgets and focus attention on small, manageable issues.

InformationWeek suggests that business technology leaders must begin to shift gears, and focus on the biggest business issues: globalization, transforming processes, driving revenue, customer intimacy, and fostering true innovation.

"In this day and age, if you're a technology leader and you're still preoccupied with aligning IT and business and operating, maintaining, and deploying systems--as important as those responsibilities are--you're behind the curve,'' says InformationWeek's Rob Preston.

For more on dealing with the little stuff:
- see this InformationWeek article