The Critical Role of the Business Technology Collaborator/Partner

Phrases such as technology supports the business, or needs to be aligned with the business, are industrial age thinking. It is like saying finance supports the business. These functional areas are the business, in the same way technology is the business. The Business Technology Collaborator/Partner (BTP) provides the focus that understands the business needs, the possibilities of technology to address these needs, and presents a business case that is suitable and understandable to the business stakeholders, and is transformable by the technology specialists. A BTP is quite different from business analysis, technologists, or business/enterprise architecture roles, is not a traditional “order taking” function, and has the ability to rationally balance short and long term business and technology needs and goals. A BTP skillset is a balance between human communications and technology awareness. Tune in for an understanding of this critical role in the digital transformation age.