The Hands-On Project Office

PREFACE

There was a time not so long ago when information technology (IT) executives labored in obscurity and the IT organization was viewed by its enterprise sponsors as a necessary but expensive piece of overhead. The best run IT shops kept costs down and the presses rolling. The broad spectrum of IT’s strategic alignment with the business was not of concern, and only rarely did one find a chief information officer (CIO) sitting on the executive management committee. Today, the situation is quite different. Whereas in the early 1990s IT executives may have fretted about having a role in the enterprise’s strategic visioning, today IT enablement serves as a core component in most business plans. As a result, proportionate spending on IT has ...