What boards don't do--but must do--about information technology.

A discussion of information technology rarely makes it upon to a board meeting agenda. While the reasons for this may be understandable, these authors argue that directors ne to grasp IT's part in their company's success and to discuss that part as they would general strategy or a merger or an acquisition. In this article, they make known several suggestions for how directors can understand and discuss IT's critical importance.

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Businesses today are actual dependent on information systems and technologies because of the expansion of electronic business and IT-based endue chain management, as well as the fact that