IT Is Back Calling the Shots

摘要

The start of 2007 finds it vendors at the top of the food chain squirming at being treated like the help. Vendor royalty such as Microsoft, Dell, and Intel, along with consultants who have insinuated themselves as IT's empowered insider, don't like it when you hold strategy meetings without inviting them. Besides, it seemed clear to them that continuing to play up to IT's appetite for convenience, expediency, and avoiding risk was a solid basis for their long-term road maps.