Define Priorities and Role of Enterprise IT Managers

Priorities

The key to success, in implementing a crucial initiative like e-business development, is to aim for the maximum business value with the minimum cost.

Informed enterprise IT managers need to realize the criticality of this effort and must align application development and operations primarily with the needs and priorities of the business.

Role of Enterprise IT Managers

They must seek augmented effectiveness and risk mitigation in new project and application technology delivery to the enterprise business goals. This demands control over complexities – in changing business landscape, application environments, project management etc. They would do well to establish and focus on certain important parameters driving the e-business priorities in the enterprise like business impact, business urgency, technical complexity, efficiency planning, change management and organizational readiness.

They must note the user experience and techno graphical issues to manage since most enterprise end users have no knowledge of basic information access techniques, leave alone proximity with the advanced, web-based technologies. They need to be responsible for tactical maintenance of systems and initiatives, monitoring the key metrics, and effecting changes to meet business needs as they arise. They need to contribute strategically to the future roadmap of the enterprise computing landscape

Whether it is B2C (business to consumers), B2B (business to business), or traditional back-end support, e-business applications are proving their effectiveness in analyzing business conditions, streamlining operations, fostering customer relations and predicting business outcomes.

Major aspects taking the technology landscape by storm are application servers, advanced content management systems, and enterprise integration projects, aided hugely by open source frameworks. As e-business has taken hold of imagination across the enterprise world, there is a rapid evolution underway in the different associated domains and technologies.

Key technology focus areas today include

Portals - standard browser-based vehicles to deliver critical enterprise information.

Wireless - Full-time access to production business systems for mobile employees and customers.

Web Services - integrating enterprise systems for advanced mobility for the enterprise Collaboration

Development and consulting partnerships that straddle business insight and technology domains will deliver the right results for any forward looking enterprise about to embark on the challenge of implementing the e-business paradigm in its enterprise operations.

Aligns the project milestones with the business goals – giving optimal business

Value

Integrates technology progress with organizational operations – for better information effectiveness

Manages the entire project – conception through maintenance – providing lowered risk, rationalized costs and minimal complications

Such crucial enterprise computing initiatives will approach success only when strong partnering and communication are ensured between the business and IT constituents in this incidental eco-system.