That was the consensus of six panelists brought together by information exchange solutions specialist IntraLinks in a roundtable discussion Thursday morning at the Gabarron Foundation in New York City.

How is your IT strategy developed? Most companies work tirelessly to make sure it directly aligns to the business strategy, but it's still a waterfall process: Decide on a business strategy, and then build a technology strategy to support it. In fact, according to Forrester data, more than two-thirds of IT leaders wait for business leaders to finalize their strategy before IT formulates its own.

Today's executives are totally dependent on technology to achieve their organisation's goals and objectives — without technology they cannot compete. According to Forrester, CIOs have a vital role to play in developing business strategy and framing the business technology strategy — defining the technology direction for the organisation in future years to achieve competitive advantage. Forrester defines business technology (BT) as:

Private sector CIOs appear to be optimistic that the UK government's comprehensive spending review will not have a knock-on effect in their own patch.

A new business strategy firm is holding a series of seminars and workshops on design thinking and how it can be used to increase innovation.

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