We increasingly manage our lives with the efficiency once reserved for event planners, even extending time management principles to our shrinking weekends.

Management-speak has certainly replaced the language of IT.

We've heard it a million times - IT is all about the business with technology relegated to the back room.

Nowadays there are very few meaty discussions about 'speeds and feeds'. Such tech-heavy topics are considered so pre-Y2K.

Even product demos are hardly recognizable with all the talk about outcomes, deliverables and ROI.