ex-IT people bring innovations to HR

I bumped into Murad, another ex-IT Manager who is now doing procurement for international operation. He was then a UNIX server specialist - we were using a number of Sun servers for some of the technical applications - and he was the system administrator. He took care of the server maintenance including capacity planning and he enjoyed the work so much, eventhough having to be in the "engine room" (what we called our data center) all the times. With him was a young ex-IT executive who is now Murad's subordinate. She was complaining about how some old-style bosses hate ex-IT people and looked at them suspiciously. She said these old-style bosses - whose authority only exists on memos and circulars circulated to line departments - are very slow. Their workstyle is paper-based. They feared IT things like XP, PowerPoints slides, emails and anything electronic. They feel threatened by the speed of how ex-IT people get things done. They feared some day they will lose their jobs to these innovated Generation X people. I must admit the truth in what she said. They are two ex-IT staff in my HR Department and they were doing very well. They moved faster than others.