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As we all know, achieving IT and business alignment is not easy. We must tie business strategy, technology, and people into a comprehensive and synergistic package that, as Paul Strassmann says, will demonstrate a positive relationship between IT and accepted financial measures of performance. However, as my mother used to say, you need to be careful for what you wish for, because you might get it.
In the first four articles in this series, I identified a maturity model for Internet technology adoption (below). This article focuses on how companies can move from Level 3 to Level 4.
ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION 12 January 2000 by Paul Harmon
The Object Management Group (OMG) has scheduled a workshop on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) for 7-9 February 2000, in Orlando, Florida, and I think it's a meeting that serious enterprise architects
Software robustness is a problem that everybody cares about but few people address in their products. The average project has several weeks devoted to testing, mostly in the weeks before deployment. Of course, most software ends up behind schedule and over budget, and testing is the first thing to get reduced or cut. Thus, much commercial software gets only a couple of days of testing before it is shipped.
There is a vital difference between what is technologically possible and what is culturally doable. In the days when technology was merely an enabler of change, the difference between that which was technologically possible and that which was culturally doable was often the difference between a passing fad and legitimate change.