Technology is integral to how your organization functions.  It shouldn’t be an after-thought, and it shouldn’t be left to the few folks on the team that “know I.T. stuff”.  Don’t believe me?  You will if your website goes down, you can’t send out that holiday email campaign, or you can’t generate a report you need before the next board meeting.    Here’s the thing;  most people know this already, however in the scramble to get the important stuff done, most of which, on the surface, don’t seem to be technology related (i.e. securing repeat donors, on-boarding staff, building meaningful programs and events, training volunteers etc.) there’s often a rush to purchase whatever software will address our need the fastest, without consideration toward the broader context surrounding said purchase. This has been an ongoing struggle.  I.T. folks wanting/needing to sit in, and sometimes help facilitate, the technology strategy sessions vs. end users that prefer to go at it on their own and buy/u