Eric David Benari contributed a post to MIT CIO Symposium’s CIO Corner blog on Building Sustainable IT ROI:
“When analyzing IT ROI, the ROI-sustainability factor is often overlooked. A frequent scenario involves architecture plans that call for multiple diverse technologies that may each be practical choices on their own, but are virtually incompatible together or require completely different skills/teams to integrate and maintain. To build IT ROI that proves itself beyond the planning stage it is critical that the entire IT-infrastructure, including the human-resources that interact with it, are analyzed as a whole.”
I constantly soapbox on understanding and accounting for the value of IT investments over time, so I enjoyed the entire post. One point though, the essentialness of planning (architectural planning) is especially pertinent to cloud computing. [Emphasis is mine.]
“Fundamental to sustainable IT-project ROI is the concept of more >>
