[Grimm1]

Many times purely business folks don't take the time to understand tech as it has a higher initial learning curve and so its a black box domain for them.

Not that they need to achieve high mastery over it but a little understanding goes a long way.

I've seen it time and time again, since they don't get it they fear it and the seeming power it has over their company. They treat it like a force of nature -- something that just is instead of another business domain to learn something about and so when things break there is this weird abdication of self determination like there was no possible way to have prevented things from going down or reaching a point of no recovery.

This all in turn leads to the lower valuation of tech instead of say sales or marketing.