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At a recent IT conference, a colleague of mine who helps companies negotiate large-scale outsourcing deals posed a question to the audience. He mused, "Have we squeezed all the productivity there is to squeeze out of IT?"
I am not a confident cook. My approach at big dinners is to write down everything I want to make, assemble all the ingredients, orchestrate an appropriate set of dependencies (what needs to come out of the oven first, and so on) and then implement with the goal that everything be hot and on the table, hopefully edible, at the same time.
To be effective, business-IT alignment must be practiced as a continuous activity, with the business model being continuously adjusted to reflect changing conditions such as IT developments and market changes. As the business model changes, IT must adapt accordingly. Within this continuous process, complex problems are faced, and identifying the right decisions is difficult.
The open source software movement has been catapulted into the limelight over the last two years, as a series of successful projects have captured the attention of corporate America. For example, the Linux operating system, poster-child of the open source movement, took shape in 1991 alongside the GNU Project to develop a freely available operating system.
