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IT Gets Strategic
The results fly in the face of the long-standing attitude that IT is merely an operational component of business - critical to many, but none the less tactical rather than strategic. And sure, it sounds great but I still have some serious doubts about it. I do think there is the desire of many businesses to use technology to drive greater profits but the old prejudices - and realities - still hold true. In early August, I was interviewing a number of CIOs for a project and I posed the question to them "Is IT considered a profit center or a cost center." And you got it, every single one of them said it is a cost center. « Is Unix Dead? I Think I Hear It Laughing... | Main | Behind The Times » |
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