This material is taken from that Report. Successful e-business projects stay flexible so they can take advantage of new technology. The technology that we use for e-business initiatives is changing incredibly rapidly. What we keep finding is that things we used to have to develop from scratch are now, suddenly it seems, available off the shelf. We also keep finding that folks come up with new and better ideas for how to do things.
New technologies come onto the market that make our job easier or expand our possibilities.
When you are putting a project together, don't design it to lock you into a particular kind of technology that you may want to back out of down the road. Usually this means not being at the cutting edge of technology but being a couple of steps back with stuff that's already proved to be standard. If you need to move out to the cutting edge, that should almost always be in smaller areas of the project rather than for the project as a whole. What I'm after here is to keep you from betting the company without meaning to. Click here to check your e-business project against the above by using our Evaluator.