Power of partnership between IT and Business teams.
One would expect that the pervasive Internet in the business world will make IT departments more critical than ever. IT Organizations would help deploy Internet not only as an equalizer, but also to provide competitive advantage in the marketplace. The Internet and Collaboration technology deployments today would provide the same boost to corporations that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations did in late 90’s. For an enterprise, Internet today enable collaboration amongst globally dispersed product R&D and development teams, automations in Supply Chain, new cost effective opportunities for Marketing, dialog between customers and Sales teams, shortening of sales cycle and enhanced quality of customer support to name a few. While corporations have greatly benefited from these investments, the CIO influence at the corporate executive staff has waned in the last decade. An Information Week survey found that the percentage of CIOs reporting directly to CEOs dropped from 45...