Most executives find it difficult enough to stay on top of current information technology practices.
The future can wait. Business leaders would do well to anticipate how IT will change the ways their companies operate and employees work, as well as how it will alter the increasingly global economic and social environment they inhabit. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, home to a hands-on approach to technology, a group of experts from fields as varied as engineering, economics, architecture, management and public policy is looking beyond today's IT challenges. If you're that kind of company then you should be focused on getting returns on your information work as opposed to returns on your fixed assets or any other kind of capital. That seems to be one thing that knowledge enterprises are focusing on.