Building Smarter Technology Requires Investment

摘要

In Today's Business Climate, Many Economists and pundits have compared the current U.S. economy to Japan's in the 1990s, the infamous "lost decade." Enterprise IT in the United States has gone through something of a lost decade of its own since the first downturn at the end of 2000. With the exception of a few years during the middle of this decade, most IT departments have been in cost-cutting mode, and in the existing economic environment, the temptation to cut even more is stronger than ever. If we are ever going to rebuild our nation's economy, our businesses must stop cutting IT spending. We as a nation, both corporate and civil, must begin investing in our infrastructure. It's time for our government to invest in our national infrastructure, and it's time for corporate America to start investing in technology again.