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Business-IT alignment is very much about implementing change successfully. As new information technologies emerge, organizations must be attentive to the potential benefits and competitive advantages they can bring to their businesses. They must also be capable of adjusting their current IT solutions quickly and regularly.

During the weeks and months preceding the Y2000 event, there was heightened attention paid to information security. Many organizations started to become concerned about viruses that might be launched to coincide with Y2000, disguised to resemble Y2000 bugs rather than security breaches. There was a lot of attention paid to keeping up with patches to fix security holes in commercial products and more effort spent on installing intrusion-detection products.

FUNDING BUSINESSES 19 January 2000 by Paul Harmon

In a former life, I used to spend a lot of time developing training programs for companies. Initially I believed that the instructional designer should be someone different from the presenter.

INFORMATION SECURITY: NOT JUST A Y2000 PROBLEM 19 January 2000 by Nancy Mead

During the weeks and months preceding the Y2000 event, there was heightened attention paid to information security.

We all operate in a dynamic market swept by global changes such as Web-inspired technology infrastructure paradigm shifts, privatization, deregulation, and the globalization of industries. Mergers and acquisitions abound as companies seek to remain strong or gain strength in an e-commerce-enabled global marketplace.