The Constancy of Change
CIO, February, 2006 by Abbie Lundberg
The pace of change is accelerating, as it has so many times before. But what’s different this time is that change is penetrating all aspects of the CIO’s world, including the way IT contributes to the business, the way software is developed and acquired, and the way CIOs communicate with the people who work in their companies and beyond. All change has ripple effects and needs to be managed. And it can have unintended consequences too.
In “Highway to Value” on Page 66, Senior Writer Ben Worthen profiles the evolution of GM’s OnStar system, this year’s Grand Winner of the CIO Enterprise Value Awards. OnStar is a model of the powerful way in which IT can contribute value to a business and the kind of journey a company has to take to get there. The vanguard of value has...
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