The culture of an organisation needs to be supportive of collaboration, in terms of identifying where, why and how collaboration can yield business benefits. This is great in terms of improving automation, and the routing of information.
While governance must not be ignored, the CIOs' main focus must remain on safeguarding the information and technology assets of the corporation. As if we don't have enough acronyms in the IT industry, another has emerged from the US called the CGO...
The NHS' £6bn IT programme will merely provide the kind of bog standard automation familiar to the private sector for a decade by excluding innovative small and medium sized IT vendors, according to new research.
Also, the innovation created by the opportunity of instant mobile connection combined with inherent device limitations makes it difficult to compare and position one solution with another. Mobile client/server: Remote access to enterprise data is...
If the market does not include enough suppliers with the specialist skills needed by the buyer then there is no competition anyway, and if the buyer doesn't already have a culture of strong IT governance - or the will to install modular processes...
The whole thrust of the open software movement was originally based on an attempt to sustain the culture that existed in earlier days, when algorithms were freely published and code swapped between developers.