Are you looking for a silver bullet? That’s a fast way to a lot of work: mining the ore, smelting the metals, refining out the dross and perhaps it’s the wrong caliber perhaps the gun doesn’t fire straight missing the target.
Your foot is valuable, there are no werewolves and Tonto was right.
Creating lasting value in a business that has information technology at its core is a strategic venture. In this century all businesses, that have the opportunity to last, have: information, analysis, transaction and negotiated contracts at their core. That is to say if you have an airline or a zoo, success can only be sustained with strategic IT. Marketing is dependent on getting data selecting through analytics the segmentation and the value proposition. Operations need to have quality based on facts and R&D focused on the possibilities hidden from casual inspection. As markets become both physical and virtual how do you continue to make money?
Rather than outlining what you already know about how dependent and integral IT is to every business, let me share a secret.
IT has been changing and will continue to change rapidly and bring new capabilities with new winners in every business type.
What if you were guided through the current best practices of IT used in other and perhaps parallel industries and you were to grasp a fundamental new way of transforming your business, reducing costs, having more perfect customers or such a bump in business value that your bank manager knows your name?
