My vice president is visionary, which is exceptionally useful when you're a malcontent like me. We had a great discussion around some opportunties my company might come into. I was excited to hear his take on this, especially because I came away with an idea as to what I might want to do in 2006 professionally at work. And here's part of it.
He said that it was all well and good that I wanted to noodle around and come up with better ways to use our products and services, but he said I wasn't to go off inventing solutions and then looking for a problem it'd solve. (Mind you, that's probably someone else's job in another part of the company). Instead, he wanted me to keep my eyes and ears open to situations where our customer base might have a business problem to solve, and then think of ways to apply our expertise, our existing technolgy knowledge, our apps, and a little bit of "stretch" to help them scratch their itch.
I think this relates to my post yesterday about participating, and being part of the solution. I think that there are lots of opportunities for people to develop their roles, and expand their capabilities within their organization, but the one fast-track way to move into work that's more interesting and more challenging is to find solutions for problems that exist, and then deliver the solution.
It's a little too soon for me to talk about next steps for myself, but I'm definitely looking into ways to build on my realizations of yesterday, and incorporate this into them. I'm in a great spot, in that I can noodle around with technology, and then talk about it with others in such a way as they get what I'm saying. I'm just going to capitalize on that a bit more in 2006.
Are there ways you can change your role to "scratch itches" within your organization?
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