After years of relative stability, IT organizations are entering a new and uncertain era. Despite much recent discussion, IT actually matters more than ever to most businesses, as information technology becomes ever more embedded in most new products and services, and as companies increasingly rely on IT to spur business innovation. The great work of using IT to transform whole sectors such as entertainment, retail, health care, automotive, manufacturing, education, government and defence has clearly just begun.

But as the use of IT expands from supporting the business to being inseparable from the business, the management of IT will need to change. For too long, IT organizations have mostly looked downwards into their operations, spending the majority of their time installing and maintaining critical systems and applications. However, it is now becoming clear that in the future, IT leaders will need to look outward at their business´s changing requirements and the IT architectures that can support them.

See event: The Future of the IT Organization (17 Feb 2005)