The six steps to better boardroom/IT understanding

It's time business leaders grasped a little more about the technology driving their business if they want to keep ahead in the competitive commercial world. The need for the chief information officer (CIO) to better understand business, the need for the IT manager to engage more with his internal clients, the clamour for IT departments to deliver while cutting costs; it appears IT manager baiting has become a new sport for board directors of UK plc, but not all business owners and IT professional agree to disagree. Our six point memorandum calls for boards to be reasonable in their expectations of IT.