Translate Geek Speak
YOU’VE PROBABLY SAID something like it 20 times a day while bantering with your IT colleagues: “Let’s take this ERP discussion offline with Chuck, who can penetrate the FUD on this.” This makes perfect sense to your network manager, but your CFO will be baffled. As you prepare to do battle with that same CFO over your budget, being clear and concise is more important than ever.
So the next time you’re in the boardroom trying to sell upper management on a plan to migrate away from your company’s legacy systems, don’t speak geek. Instead, speak the language of business. Here’s a guide to help you translate some examples of techy talk into the kind of lingo any CFO (or CEO) can understand.
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