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The final leg of my European journey was to attend and speak at the Extreme Programming and Flexible Process 2001 conference near Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
Many firms are having serious doubts about IT's ability to deliver business intelligence (BI) systems. After participating in many BI strategy and implementation efforts, it has become apparent that neither the IT function nor the business users have the mindset to deploy and utilize BI systems correctly. Corporations today are drowning in terabytes of transactional data.
Over the past 12 months, I have been teaching a series of public object technology courses across the US. To my continuing surprise, most of the participants were from sophisticated organizations that I would have believed had undertaken and completed the migration to object technology years ago.
In the April 2001 issue of ITMS , I tackled the subject of metrics and negotiation. I described how negotiation using metrics is crucial when IT organizations face inevitable cost constraints that occur in an economic slowdown. This is compounded by the fact that IT organizations are often aiming for Internet-speed deadlines. It's a double whammy for IT organizations today.
Business-IT alignment can be an elusive challenge for organizations riding the shifting tide of industry changes, globalization, and emerging information technologies. Yet aligning IT with critical business initiatives is essential to the ongoing success and survival of most companies.