Notes:
Information technology plays an important role in the development and implementation of organisational strategies.
The success and advances in IT have led to increasingly complex solutions.
The business environment is now more competitive than ever before and organisations need to adapt quickly to retain their competitiveness. It is also true that many organisations are still more reactive than proactive.
These and other factors have resulted in: -
The growth of the IT industry
The need to develop more complex IT solutions in shorter time scales
As the industry as grown so has the number of employees in IT organisations. Many of the companies we now work in are very different beasts to what the were 5-10 years ago.