Research - CIOInsight
Home arrow Research arrow Page 4 - BPI: The CIO`s Secret Weapon
  Research


BPI: The CIO`s Secret Weapon
By Brian P. Watson


  Table of Contents:
  1. BPI: The CIO`s Secret Weapon
  2. Overcoming Resistance
  3. BPI as Profitability Driver
  4. Some Technologies Provide Better Returns
  5. Target Departments Carefully
  6. Strong Cooperation Overcomes BPI Hurdles

Rate This Article:
Add This Article To:
BPI: The CIO`s Secret Weapon - Some Technologies Provide Better Returns
( Page 4 of 6 )

FINDING 2
Some Technologies Provide Better Returns
Collaboration tools are a primary technology for successful BPI. Web services and mobility have shown significant BPI investment in the past three years, but they are not nearly as strong contributors to its success as collaboration tools, data integration or knowledge management (the last having the highest use-to-success ratio of any technology we asked about). But strangely enough, companies continue to increase their investments in Web services for BPI nearly as much as for any other technology. You’d be better off looking at technologies showing a high degree of success, such as the ones mentioned below, or business process modeling software, enterprise application integration tools or systems-development outsourcing services.

Resource Library:



 
 
>>> More Research Articles          >>> More By Brian P. Watson
 


 
 
FEATURED SPONSORED MESSAGE
 

    Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2


    Building on the award-winning foundation of Windows Server 2008, R2 enables IT professionals to increase the reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructures.

    Access a trove of Microsoft resources, analyst white papers, and multimedia presentations on Windows Server 2008 R2.


FEATURED SPONSORED CONTENT

    Improve Communication and Collaboration

    Enable employees to more effectively collaborate and compete in a tough economy. Make communications and collaboration efficient, more secure, less expensive, and easier to manage.

    A Unified Communications deployment can help reign in the costs and the chaos by combining voice, data, fax, conferencing, and presence awareness into a single, versatile system.


BIZTECH 3.0
By Brian P. Watson
CIOs and the Consumerization of IT

New advice on how CIOs should bring consumer-focused technologies into the enterprise.
CIO STRATEGY
The Perfect IT Book for the Business?

Parkinson needs a book that explains IT to the business. Got any suggestions?    

Google CIO on IT's Role in Corporate Culture

RECENT NEWS

KNOW IT ALL
By Tony Kontzer
Internet Addiction: A Mental Illness?

A leading psychiatric group doesn't think so. But maybe it should. 


EDITORS' PICKS
 
 
LATEST STORIES

FEEDBACK


Ziff Davis Enterprise RSS Feeds

Sponsored Links
  • Servers that cut energy costs by 95%? Cool.
  • Save time & money with Microsoft's cloud services.
  • Simplicity is Power. Start simplifying with Citrix.
  • Register for WES 2010 by March 26 and save $200.
  • One number. One voicemail. Sprint Mobile Integration.
  • CDW Healthcare offers the IT solutions you need.
  • FREE Sophos Encryption Tool: Encrypt, compress and share files easily.
  • eWEEK Quick LInks