The latest CIO Magazine features a cover story that's speaks to the latest coming out of the research and consulting firms -- run IT like a business. Well, duh! Other business units in enterprises figured this out a long time ago, and matured IT shops are already there. IT has traditionally been a cost centre, mostly because it has traditionally been run by the geeks who's knowledge have been limited to bits and bytes. The smart ones left to start their own businesses and left the shop to be run with people with no business talent. IT is now trust into the new century, where technology is not only a business differentiator, it can also be used a competitive weapon. Suddenly IT needs to worry about more than just keeping the data centre running -- suddenly they also have to worry about the viability of the enterprise they support. Suddenly they have to be proactive. The consulting firms will use words like agile, adaptive and flexible to get the hormones of the geeks flowing, but what it boils down to, is IT should be a business. Read the featured articles in CIO magazine on how to run IT like a business -- nothing new for anyone with much business sense.
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