IT Organization: Building a Worldclass Infrastructure

Lack of Time and Resource

There is a severe lack of time and resource to build the proper infrastructure. Many of the issues we've highlighted have already been identified. They are on that infamous list of goals year in and year out. These issues have been on the back burner for too long. New technology or new systems continue to take precedence. It's the same story no matter where we go. The pendulum will never shift back to the way we built infrastructures in the 1970s and 1980s when the infrastructure was priority number one and everything else was a lesser priority. However, the proportion of 90 percent applications development and 10 percent infrastructure development will be the death of client/server computing because the system will ...