When senior management decides to acquire another company, all too often it focuses on financial and legal due diligence but neglects the importance of conducting IT due diligence. In most companies, technology plays a vital role in the ability to deliver products and services, improve employee productivity, and increase company profitability.

When senior management decides to acquire another company, all too often it focuses on financial and legal due diligence but neglects the importance of conducting IT due diligence. In most companies, technology plays a vital role in the ability to deliver products and services, improve employee productivity, and increase company profitability.

If innovation is to become the next core competency, it must become a truly collaborative discipline. Isolated R&D departments and ivory tower product strategies, unlinked from the market dynamics and abstracted from the actual capability to deliver, cannot handle the demand for innovations.

If innovation is to become the next core competency, it must become a truly collaborative discipline. Isolated R&D departments and ivory tower product strategies, unlinked from the market dynamics and abstracted from the actual capability to deliver, cannot handle the demand for innovations.

IT strategy

IT strategy

When you write about trends in software, you quickly realize that software ideas go through cycles and count their lives in years. They don't necessary die within a few years, but are more likely simply set aside like some senile grandparent that everyone ignores.

The time has come for IT leaders to plan for their next generation of supported remote Internet access, particularly as more mainstream end users are increasingly likely to attempt to use one or more of the various connection options, raising the probability of security lapses, creating new support issues, and increasing the cost of inaction.