Efficiency and productivity were the watchwords of the late 20th century, but today the emphasis needs to be more on agility. The prescription for organizational agility is markedly different from the prescription for efficiency and productivity.
Editor's Note: The following two articles are from Cutter's Business Technology Trends and Impacts Council Opinion, " Spending Priorities for 2002," (Vol. 2, No. 11) published at the close of 2001.
At the tender age of 24, I was nominated by the board of directors of my company to be an officer. If the office they were proposing had been President or Vice President it would have been something to write home about, but it wasn't.
Note: The present Council Opinion is the second of three on the subject of a pandemic -- an extensive disruption of our information infrastructure due to natural or malicious causes.