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Maybe you heard we have a book out, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.  That's right, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.  But what on Earth does that mean? It's tough to define, because most of us have a really hard time thinking about technolgy as more than that stuff that helps you work faster (or the stuff that you want to throw out the window).

Steve Heye wrote the very first chapter in the book, on the topic of IT Alignment, aligning technology to your mission.  Steve, John, and a number of other IT staff at YMCA's across the country came up with concept and really know what it means to bring technology to the leadership table.

I got the chance to chat to the both of them a while back.  In addition to laughing a lot (I had to edit a LOT of it out), we talked about some of the most important issues that IT staff and leaders face together in their organizations:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/nten/heye_steve.mp3

And in case you questioned Steve's geek street cred, you should know that he MAY be more excited about visitng the LucasArts video games office than his session.  I don't even like video games and I'm jealous.