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After low year-end spending in 2003, businesses are likely to spend more on information technology than the amount they have budgeted for 2004, according to market research firm Gartner.
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The dullest observation you can possibly make about information technology is that it should be designed to serve the needs of the business, rather than the technology experts.
In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.
The CIO must act as the link between IT and the wider strategy of the business, and not get too bogged down in technology alone.
It's one thing to say that IT is aligned with business strategy and another to make sure it's happening. Understand where alignment goes wrong, and then take some simple steps to avoid that scenario.
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