Frequently Asked Questions 1. IS Managers find themselves facing a tough business environment. However, now these are behind them most executives are starting to scrutinise IS expenditure much more closely. There is a belief in business that much IT investment has not lived up to its potential. IS Managers find themselves under the spotlight trying to show their business peers what value they are generating for the organisation.
Executives is against 'airline magazines'.
By this they are talking about how the mainstream business press seems to present the latest IS technology as a silver bullet. Many are forced to investigate these just because the executive perceive them as a panacea for the organisations information problems. In this category are modern buzzwords like eCommerce, CRM and knowledge management. Outside this other areas attracting their interest are more modern communication functionality such as wireless facilities. There is always interest in how an organisation can better exploit its information resource which takes in topics like data warehousing, data mining and business intelligence.