IT Asks, "Are You My Mother?"

by Christine Davis, Tim Lister, The Cutter Business Technology Council

IT has lived safe inside its technology egg, which was laid many years ago. The mother organization supplied large amounts of cash nutrition, and some computer systems were delivered. Like it or not, IT has hatched; it is now a self-sufficient organism facing life or death on its own. We don't live in a children's book, though, and we can't guarantee a happy ending for IT.