I.T. Wars provides a clear path to proper alignment of technology and business, in achieving best results and ongoing returns. The true challenge is in bringing diverse groups of people together from the business and technical realms, in defining needs and making true delivery of solutions. The Business-Technology Weave is an approach that turns everyone and everything into a responsible forward edge. It includes considerations of people, knowledge, communication, corporate culture, attitudes, relationships, content (information), infrastructure, applications, needs, and expectations. It comprises missions with specific beliefs, values, and standards in service to security and growth. The Weave clears political impairments, helps to dismantle protectionism and jealousy, and breaks down departmental “silos.” It opens the way to a future that you define – in preventing the alternative: future’s imposition on you. What are the liabilities in today's environment of e-mail, blogs, IMs, downloads, and portable data? Consider: What is being done 'in the name of your domain'? How best to manage content, in avoiding a glut of information? How can staff best utilize the power of the utilities that are delivered to their desktops? What are the new scales of disaster planning, preparedness, prevention, and recovery? What is your organization’s role in contributing to the surrounding public safety – in securing your own? I.T. Wars begins with a patient, comprehensive exposure of today's environment and challenges, with equal attention to the Business and IT reader. Whether your organization is public, private, government agency, or association you share in the same concerns: You need a business-driven technology strategy, as well as a business serving one. Now you can develop a vision and pragmatism strong enough to qualify for discussion, planning, and achievement of the best business-technology outcomes. "Prior to initiating any major systems implementation or business change, David Scott should be required reading for the whole team." -- Thomas Faulhaber, Editor and Founder of The Business Forum Online - Boston, MA CLOSING DIVIDES ? DIRECTING PURPOSE ? ACHIEVING RESULTS Today, technology is an indispensable support to business - whether public or private, large or small, profit or not. Dependencies and vulnerabilities require special people, and evolving disciplines, in managing and planning this support for today and tomorrow s requirements. And yet, in capturing technology s best fit and use, it is too often like making a jigsaw puzzle - except several people have their hands on the pieces, and the pieces change size and color as you go along. Frequently someone or something upends the table halfway through the puzzle s completion and you start over! It often seems impossible. IT IS LITTLE WONDER, WHEN: ¨ Many organizations treat technology planning and implementation as an interruption to business, rather than as a part of business.¨ IT and Business people talk to each other in their own respective language, even as neither understands the other s language, or domain, particularly well. ¨ Many organizations suffer resultant divides between needs and reality. The yield is lost productivity, costly mistakes, and even dangerous conditions. These divides can even lead to competing, duplicitous, systems of support in the same organization or across groups of organizations working a united front. In a world of accelerative change, zooming security requirements, and demands for best outcomes, we must discover an affordable path to a modern arena for getting things done. Today s business requires the IT Enlightened Organization one with a business-driven IT strategy, as well as a business-serving one. The modern arena is a Business-Technology Weave. This book creates a bridge of understanding between Business and Technology first. It subsequently shows the common interests, the mutual dependencies, and the reinforcements - ultimately the ways and rewards of working together - for a very simple, common goal: Better business. David Scott has over twenty years of experience in helping to define business-driven IT strategies, in achieving business serving ones. His philosophy is wholly dedicated to closing divides, directing purpose, and achieving results. I.T. Wars is a first, holistic, treatment for the business-technology paradigm from a new cultural perspective and need - eCulture - in defining the modern relationship between people, business, and technology. He has directed Information Technology endeavors for many types of organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies, in leading areas such as public relations, patient care, laboratory accreditation, direct-mail marketing, telecommunications, and food safety. In addition, he has assisted several organizations in their contribution of human and environmental services. Mr. Scott is a professional speaker and consultant, and has helped many in achieving their in