Very few business strategies today can be successfully executed without information technology (IT) to support them. In fact, market leaders acknowledge that IT is not really so much a separate function within their companies, as it is an integral and strategic part of their operating infrastructure. Yet, with traditional IT systems requiring large capital outlays and technical staffs, and taking too much time to implement and change, many businesses - large and small alike - have been severely...

Very few business strategies today can be successfully executed without information technology (IT) to support them. In fact, market leaders acknowledge that IT is not really so much a separate function within their companies, as it is an integral and strategic part of their operating infrastructure. Yet, with traditional IT systems requiring large capital outlays and technical staffs, and taking too much time to implement and change, many businesses - large and small alike - have been severely limited in their ability to use IT to innovate, compete and grow. All of that is about to change. This session will share latest research and perspectives on new "cloud-enabled" IT models - that leverage software-as-a-service, "mash-up" application models, next-generation on-premise systems, and very large, global solution marketplaces - to "democratize" IT access, and finally allow organizations to out-innovate and out-execute their competitors, not based on the size of their IT budgets or skills, but on the power of their ideas.

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