My new blog post on the Corporate Eco Forum site: "Bringing Enterprise Computing into the 21st Century: A Management and Sustainability Challenge"

The Corporate Eco Forum (CEF) just posted a new essay of mine titled "Bringing Enterprise Computing into the 21st Century: A Management and Sustainability Challenge".

Here are two key intro paragraphs:

Most companies view IT as a cost center, but the most effective users of these new technologies understand that IT can be a cost-reducing profit center that also improves environmental performance. Reforming IT is imperative for organizations that want to innovate faster and compete more effectively, a fact that modern enterprises ignore at their peril.

The critical factor is senior management attention to restructuring enterprise IT, since addressing these issues is primarily an organizational challenge that is “above the pay grade” of those responsible for datacenter operations. Companies that tackle this challenge will reap rewards in increased revenues, lower costs, faster innovation, and greater business agility. It’s a win-win-win-win, but most upper managers ignore this potential, treating IT as a cost of doing business that they simply must pay.

I’ll be doing a webinar for CEF members on this topic tomorrow morning at 9am PT.

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