Ten Reasons Governance Is Like Sex
I don't claim to be an expert on IT governance, but after a couple decades of helping people make technology decisions, I'll boil down my thoughts on the topic to one simile: Governance is like sex because...At the J Boye Conference in Philadelphia earlier this month, I joined a panel reviewing some of the "hot topics" from the event. As you might expect at a gathering of web and intranet managers, the issue of governance kept recurring.
We could debate what governance means -- I define it as consistent structures and processes for making effective decisions -- but everyone agrees governance is critical to long-term success.I don't claim to be an expert on website and IT governance, but after a couple decades of helping people make technology decisions, I'll boil down my thoughts on the topic to one simile:
Governance is like sex:
- People tend to talk about it more than they do it, and...
- ...Most people don't do it as much as they'd like
- At least one key player needs to really want it or it will never get started
- There are many different ways to do it satisfactorily
- It's more art than science
- It's more successful in environments characterized by mutual trust
- Other people can give you a lot of good advice, but only you can make it happen
- You may not get it right at first, but that shouldn't stop you from trying
- A shared sense of fairness encourages repeatability
- In the end, bad governance is better than no governance at all
So hopefully at least by now you're smiling. If you have any particular (but not X-rated!) governance success stories you'd like to share, please chime in via the comments below.
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