The question before us is this: "Is IT an enabler of business strategy?" In order to answer this, we have done extensive research into the work and opinions of Nicholas Carr, Bill Gates, Peter Weill, and others. We then combined this research with our own experience in leading and improving IT and software development processes. From our extensive analysis comes the following definitive answer:

"It depends."

Wait -- before you accuse us of weaseling out of the question, let us explain.