Do you believe that executives and information-technologists (I.T.) have a good partnership? Think again. In most organizations, there is a gap – and sometimes a chasm – between the perceptions and priorities of technologists and the executive team (or other managers throughout the enterprise). What causes the disconnect? One key reason is what we'll call "organizational culture worldview" – the way that each group "sees" the primary objective of the enterprise.

For organizational leaders, the business is the bottom line and technology is a means to an end – one facet of a successful organization. For the technologists in the I.T. department, the technology is the point and, too often, the business bottom-line is viewed as a hassle or limitation. In some companies, a randomly surveyed I.T. employee may not even know there's a recession, for example, or that market conditions are affecting the company that employs him.

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