Competing by Design: Getting Agility from Technology

Posted October 31, 2008 | Leadership |

THE EVOLVING BUSINESS-IT RELATIONSHIP

The relationship of IT to the business has evolved significantly over the years. Originally, IT functioned as a tool builder. In that role, areas of the business operations that were tedious and rote were targeted for automation. In order for it to make business sense to build these tools, it would have to cost less to implement and maintain the technology that could do the work than it would if people continued to perform the activities manually.

About The Author
Neal Mcwhorter
Neal McWhorter is a Principal at Enterprise Agility, a specialty consulting firm focusing on business architecture and business engineering. Enterprise Agility provides senior leadership, mentoring, and training to organizations that are attempting to engineer a more agile approach to their business automation efforts in order to provide more direct control of business rules and processes to individuals with operational business responsibility.… Read More
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