Tools For The Modern It Organization

摘要

For the flrst time in recent memory, senior technology leaders' No. 1 mandate is not to build technology to prepare the business for growth. Instead the top IT priority across Wall Street is to manage technology efficiently. This dramatic reversal of priorities that places future growth behind efficiency is forcing CtOs and CTOs to take a long look at every part of the technology organization. Services that were provided to the business by the technology organization in 2007 may no longer be core to a firm's competitive strategy. An inefficient and costly architecture that could be tolerated when banks were logging record profits is no longer tenable today. Untapped or idle storage and computing capacity may no longer be justifiable in the current environment. And new hardware and software simply may not be in the budget for 2009 or even 2010. These challenges, new to many CIOs, also often come with a drastically reduced IT workforce, making it even harder to complete projects on time and on budget.