Leveraging the technology for business gain is the name of the game. C IOs have some tough decisions to make. Every department executive from marketing to finance to production to sales to human resources is pressuring the IS department for an Internet application. Now that the hype surrounding the Internet and all its components intranet, extranet, Web and push has settled down, CIOs are assessing the technologies with a critical eye. C osts are rising.
Applications are more complex.
The environment has not matured as expected. Business executives need to work closely with the CIO to ensure a positive bottom- line outcome. Leveraging the technology for business gain is the name of the game. Without this goal, collaboration projects will never get off the ground. To compound the challenge, the CIO has to worry about not only the bottom line but also lack of security, standards, development tools, immature technologies and other high-priority projects.