Outlook by Issue: 2004, Special Edition: Breaking Away | Forces have combined to give companies an unprecedented
opportunity to use IT to create business value, the ultimate standard for
measuring high performance. | | | Foreword
The Long View: Unleashing Value
from IT-Driven Innovation
By Joe Forehand, Chairman
& CEO, Accenture
From the Editor's Desk: Getting
IT Right
David Cudaback, Editor-in-Chief of Outlook,
provides an introduction to this issue's subject, which is the critical
interplay of information, technology and value - the outgrowth of more than six
months of research at Accenture.
| | | Breaking Away
Introduction: Creating Business Value through Information Technology
The
innovation that drives long-term value flourishes in the right information
technology environment. Organizations that can master four key IT capabilities
will achieve the combination of global flexibility and efficiency that is
essential to high performance.
| | | Infrastructure:
Consolidate, Standardize, Streamline
A robust IT
infrastructure, built on a master plan, can deliver real business value by
enabling companies to optimize existing resources as well as accommodate new
waves of technology.
| | | Integration: Beyond Data and
Applications
Companies that master the seamless merger
of information from diverse sources will achieve a higher level of process
performance, operate on the basis of better insight and intelligence, and be
well equipped to exploit new business possibilities.
| | | Industrialization:
Going Global
A new approach to IT management focuses on
driving down cycle time, increasing predictability, reducing rework and
defects, and fully leveraging global sourcing.
| | | Innovation: Bold New
World
The innovative application of new information
technology not only powers significant advances in business practices. Even
more important, it can also produce the breakout new product, service or
business model.
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