Increased Pressures on Information Technology
Globalization/new competitors
- Pressure on IT to focus even more strongly on businesses that are revenue-generating
Faster business cycles
- Pressure on IT to focus on the increasing need to support revenues and decreasing fixed/semi-fixed costs
Outsource
- non-revenue-generating functions
Rapidly Changing Markets
- reinforce the need for flexibility in staff/operations and shorter product life-cycles and responsiveness.