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This is the place to share your experiences, good and otherwise, about working with your business or technology counterparts,
as well as find strategies for improving those working relationships. Air your gripes, share what you've learned with others,
or bring your questions about how to deal with the geeks or suits in your life--or even how to understand what they say.
OK, you ask, but what is this Geek Gap exactly? When business people complain that technology people don't understand
the need for ROI, or only care about technology for technology's sake, we believe the culprit is not the techies themselves,
but the lack of clear communications and a common agenda. Likewise, when techies complain that the businesspeople they work
with care only about saving money, refusing to learn why new technology is needed--or even how it works--we say the real problem
is the mutual lack of understanding that prevents businesspeople from seeing the challenges and frustrations tech people face.
We believe that if techies and businesspeople learn to stop complaining about each other and instead attack the culture
clash that divides them, many of the problems both face when working together will stop being problems.
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