Follow,don’tlead. DelayITinvestmentsto significantly cut costs and decrease your risk of buying flawed or soon-to-be obsolete equipment or applications. Today, smart IT users hang back from the cutting edge, buy- ing only after standards and best practices solidify. They let more impatient rivals shoulder the high costs of experimentation. Then they sweep past them, paying less while getting more.
• Focusonrisks,notopportunities.Many corporations are ceding control over their
IT applications and networks to vendors
and other third parties. The consequences of moving from tightly controlled, proprietary systems to open, shared ones? More and more threats in the form of technical glitches, service outages, and security breaches. Focus IT resources on preparing for such disrup- tions—not deploying IT in radical new way