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Enhancing the Business-IT Relationship
Business-IT alignment has received a lot of ink through the years. The latest research from Cutter Consortium shows that most companies regard their business-IT alignment as good. But this research also shows that business-IT alignment is a problem for these same companies. This Executive Update presents these findings and highlights some ways that companies can alter traditional IT practices to improve business-IT alignment.
Executive Update
E-Business Today
The bloom is gone from the e-business rose. No longer is e-business the darling of the business press. No longer is e-business new, novel, and exciting. Today, e-business is commonplace. E-business is expected. E-business is simply the way certain things are done.
For e-business, this is a good thing. It means that e-business is maturing. It means that e-business doesn't have to live up to a bunch of unrealistic hype. It means that e-business has won its spurs. Most important, it means that e-business is here to stay.
Note: The present Council Opinion is the first of three on the subject of a pandemic -- an extensive disruption of our information infrastructure due to natural or malicious causes. The overall assertion is that such a pandemic is likely in our near future and that companies, governments, and economies need to take steps to buffer themselves from pandemic effects.
Note: The present Council Opinion is the first of three on the subject of a pandemic -- an extensive disruption of our information infrastructure due to natural or malicious causes. The overall assertion is that such a pandemic is likely in our near future and that companies, governments, and economies need to take steps to buffer themselves from pandemic effects.
DomainSecurity
It's been about three decades since the first promises about voice recognition were made by researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA -- the same Defense Department agency that created the underlying technology for the Internet).
Executive Update
Web Money Models
Money is the key to e-commerce. Selling products over the Web -- exchanging products for money -- defines e-commerce. On the Web, money comes in various forms, some as conventional as credit cards and some as unconventional as eBay's Billpoint online payment service. "Web money," if you will, has been the source of much hand-wringing and the focus of much creative thinking.
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