If you don't have the skills within your organization to develop business models for your new e-commerce application and manage it through successful implementation, take heart -- you're not alone. In fact, you're in the majority. Cutter Consortium's business-IT alignment survey shows that these key skill areas (e-commerce, business modeling, and project management) are missing in most IT organizations.

If you don't have the skills within your organization to develop business models for your new e-commerce application and manage it through successful implementation, take heart -- you're not alone. In fact, you're in the majority. Cutter Consortium's business-IT alignment survey shows that these key skill areas (e-commerce, business modeling, and project management) are missing in most IT organizations.

As we have explored in several issues of eAD , the two most pressing issues in information technology today are:

As we have explored in several issues of eAD , the two most pressing issues in information technology today are:

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We have always been self-confident here at sd&m and convinced that we are very good, even among the best.

We have always been self-confident here at sd&m and convinced that we are very good, even among the best.

As we move into the new millennium, anticipating a host of new technological advancements in every aspect of our lives, there will be one constant that we will continue to expect -- quality.

As we move into the new millennium, anticipating a host of new technological advancements in every aspect of our lives, there will be one constant that we will continue to expect -- quality.

Would you like to be part of a world-class IT organization?

Would you like to be part of a world-class IT organization?

One might say that organizations learn and grow, stay stagnant, or wither depending on their decisionmaking process and their ability to adapt.

One might say that organizations learn and grow, stay stagnant, or wither depending on their decisionmaking process and their ability to adapt.

System Architecture

E-business and e-commerce are emerging as powerful economic drivers for integrated applications and are pushing organizations into premature integration solutions.

System Architecture

E-business and e-commerce are emerging as powerful economic drivers for integrated applications and are pushing organizations into premature integration solutions.

In Cutter Consortium's recent Council Opinion " E-Business and E-Commerce as Drivers of Integration Solutions ," Council Fellow Jim Highsmith wrote that "the number-one e-business driver seems to be fear" -- as in fear of being "Amazoned." He went on to say that there are other drivers, including customer acquisition and alliance management.

Last week's Business-IT Alignment E-Mail Advisor discussed the problems inherent in bottom-up planning and suggested top-down planning as an alternative. Effective project planning is a key factor for successful business-IT alignment, because aligning IT with the business means you have to keep implementing IT projects successfully.