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| Excerpt: Technology has enabled businesses to become highly distributed. Whether "distributed" means across a region, a country, or around the globe, one thing is certain: headquarters isn't where all of the action is. With about two-thirds of the workforce operating in locations other than HQ, and an estimated 450 million mobile workers around the world, businesses now operate everywhere all the time. The ability to take advantage of business opportunities, people and resources in previously distant markets has created a vast new set of challenges for organizations. Each of these challenges could be a research project by itself. Taken together, they present a difficult dilemma to a CEO or CIO: Continue to deliver acceptable IT services by throwing money, bandwidth and infrastructure at the problem? Or, save money by consolidating at the expense of the end users? Or use IT to drive new business initiatives? |
