Business IT maturity is expressed, the way IT in totality tags it’s prices for the products and services. Nevertheless, How it recovers its costs? Life as a consultant is tough. I’m not complaining, but we have to find small ways to introduce humour and keep our sanity. I wrote recently about how a consultant can use language clues to quickly assess both business and IT maturity. Sometimes, you don’t even need the clues! One of the ways I can put a sparkle into my day, when I meet a CIO I’ve never met before, at an organization I know nothing about, after a few minutes conversation, I pronounce, “I think your IT funding model is broken!” In every case, they look surprised, then reveal, “How did you know so quickly?” Of course, the answer is, funding models are nearly always broken. However, IT funding is one of the dominant causes for being intact at mid-Level 2 Business-IT Maturity. Below that point, much IT spend is funded by the project. To a degree, business clients underst...