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Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

330- Jon Scarpa’s Advice for Effective IT Communication and User Experience Part 2

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

549 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Jon Scarpa Jon Scarpa is the Director of IT at RDAbbott, bringing years of experience in IT leadership and a focus on effective communication and user-centric design. With over 20 years of experience in IT leadership roles, Jon focuses on leveraging technology to drive business value and improve processes. He is passionate about building strong teams and mentoring IT professionals to grow their skills and careers. His approach emphasizes simplifying complex technical concepts to drive business value and improve user adoption of IT solutions. Jon Scarpa’s Advice for Effective IT Communication and User Experience In this bonus segment, Jon Scarpa discusses the importance of simplifying IT presentations and focusing on user experience. He emphasizes the need to avoid overwhelming audiences with technical jargon and instead focus on conveying key messages that solve specific problems. Jon shares insights on effective communication in IT leadership and the value of designing solutions with the end-user in mind.

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0:00.0

What are they? We would jump back on because we're still with John and I just want

0:09.2

maybe we could just, this could just be like a little sub like a, I don't know, a five minute

0:13.2

thing, a little 10 minute thing. Do you get the feeling that market researchers and data

0:19.9

analysis and people trying to sell to us, since we were

0:24.7

talking about Kiss, keep it simple, stupid. Do you ever get the feeling that maybe these

0:32.5

marketing people and research analysts and people that are throwing them, I'm not I'm I'm I'm I'm coming around

0:40.2

to Gartner because they've come up with this term hype cycle which is very good they're they did very

0:45.4

good there they're knocking it out of the park with the term hype cycle I feel like I feels more

0:49.7

organic it just feels more feels more homey feels feels less real rigid, you know. But do you get the

0:58.3

feeling that maybe a product or someone that's trying to get you to be involved in something

1:06.5

purposely overcomplicates it and makes it seem like rocket science.

1:13.8

And the reason why I ask is because I'm looking at what we are talking.

1:18.2

I said, you know what's funny is, has anyone ever, we were talking about the value of IT,

1:24.9

how you increase the value of IT.

1:26.6

And it's basically, I mean, we could probably, we could build our own calculator,

1:29.8

which surprisingly enough when I searched it, none came up except for like a couple from big

1:35.0

research.

1:35.5

Right idea.

1:36.2

From big research firms.

1:37.8

I'm not going to name them, right.

1:39.6

But basically we talk about 90 day goals.

1:41.2

You just got done talking about, you know, the one year, you know, you have a one year, wildly important goal, right? But in reality, we kind of do these two weeks sprints, whether we want to call it agile, which to me is common sense. And we break things down until like, you know, 90 day goals, which makes sense. And then we should have some kind of decision matrix where we say should we do this project how many people

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