At their IT Forum in Edinburgh, Forrester CEO George Colony told lots of European chief information officers, IT directors and senior IT managers that the name "IT" should be changed to "business technology", or "BT", as technology is now vital for running a business. Colony asked chief executives to do a "scream test" in their company: seeing how long it takes before employees begin to scream when you pull the technology plug. Not because they can no longer access "Second Life" or their personal email, but because the company is loosing money...
Colony expects a transition from information technology to business technology, and advises CEOs and corporate boards to learn more about this. Of course, they should not really understand what SOA, CRM, ERP, ... is, but how this "business technology" can generate revenue for the business.
Not so long ago, HP came up with similar conclusions about this paradigm shift, probably inspired by its acquisition of the excellent products of Mercury and Systinet.
More info about Forrester's IT Forum at Computerworld UK. Colony wrote his ideas down last August in this Forrester report.
Posted by admin at June 14, 2007 08:15 PM