--- In [email protected], "Anne Thomas
Manes" <atma...@...> wrote:
>
> If you want to sell something to a CEO, you need to think like a CEO.

Exactly so!  As I have mentioned before, put yourself behind the
eyeballs of your target audience.  A lot of techies grossly
oversetimate the familiarity that senior non-IT executives have with
the technologies we discuss.  What is more they are usually not that
interested.  To them IT is a means to an end - nothing more.

Gervas

> From his perspective, the Web is just a channel. If you want him to
> think it is something more, then you need to articulate its value in
> language he can understand. This is the challenge associated with
> trying to sell an architectural concept to a CEO.
> 
> Anne
> 
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Alexander Johannesen
> <alexander.johanne...@...> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:59, Anne Thomas Manes <atma...@...> wrote:
> >> Every CEO has bought into the Web.
> >> The Web is a channel, and every business needs to support this
> >> channel.
> >
> > The web is not just a channel.
> >
> >> What's the value proposition?
> >
> > Doing your business and infrastructure under the pretense of the
> > success of the Web, which has far more support than any SOAP system.
> >
> > Alex
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> > Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian,
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