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Insight
THE END OF THE BEGINNING:
Domain
IT Industry
INTRODUCTION
This Executive Report begins with an examination of the IT context in which we find ourselves: a general decline in capital IT spending; a post-dot-com crash era whose technical and financial aftermath refuses to die; and no consensus as to what the next "killer app" will be or when it will be deployed.
Executive Update
Security Survey
Even before the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, international security industry analysts were becoming concerned that the rapid growth of hacker activity was showing signs of organized behavior.
The accompanying Executive Report identifies and describes technology trends that, when taken together, define the macro trend: pervasive computing -- a trend that will enable all sorts of activities that today are discrete, disconnected transactions. Pervasive computing will make transactions continuous and seamless.
Quite a few supply chain management (SCM) package implementation failures have grabbed the headlines over the past few years, from companies including Whirlpool, Nike, and Hershey. A major cause of these failures has been the difficulty in changing processes within the firm and across the supply chain.
Over the past few years, we have witnessed a widespread resurgence of interest in process-driven information technology and business management. This trend is being fueled by several factors: