Ensuring IT Is E-Business Ready

by Ian S. Hayes

The accompanying Executive Report discusses the important topic of business-IT alignment in the e-business realm. It examines the Internet's unsurpassed ability to exchange information as well as its deconstructive effect on business as we know it. The Executive Report also explores how these same forces affect IT organizations and the paths by which IT can reconstruct itself. The report describes an approach to align IT to the corporate e-business vision through an assessment of IT's current state and desired future state, as well as by focusing on the people, process, portfolio, and platform components that are affected by the transformation.