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Rethinking the IT Function: The Future of Enterprise Applications
Why rethink the IT function? There have been many articles in recent popular technology and business journals questioning the need for the chief information officer (CIO) role and internal corporate IT departments.
Rethinking the IT Function: The Future of Enterprise Applications
For the average non-IT executives, IT expenses within their companies are one giant black hole that is beyond their understanding. The brave executive who tries to make an effort to understand is confused by the IT organizational structure.
by Bob Shearer and Bruce Taylor
Today, a new business phenomenon is taking shape that values the ability to transform individual and collective institutional knowledge to net worth.
Electronic business activity totaled more than US $980 billion in 2000, according to the US Department of Commerce [1, 3]. Business-to-business (B2B) transactions accounted for more than 94% of all e-commerce transactions, and much of this activity involved B2B collaboration.
Trust and knowledge-based relationships are the glue that holds together the disaggregated virtual enterprise, far more than the transactions that are exchanged in shared information systems. The real value chain in virtual enterprises is not delivered with transactions alone; it's delivered through the exchange of knowledge with trusted partners.

