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March - 2006 - issue > Cover Feature
The Neglected Customer
J. Jeffrey Nudler
To maintain and increase revenue streams, businesses must carry out operations in geographically expanding markets. This economic reality in turn necessitates an extended IT networked infrastructure to support these geographically distributed business operations.
Over 70 percent of IT departments of Fortune 2000 companies report to the CEO instead of the CFO indicating the new trend that IT is viewed as a contributor to revenue and profitability of the business. With this business recognition, there is an increased scrutiny of IT operations and a mounting pressure on the IT management to run its operations as a service business in support of corporate business objectives.
If an IT organization is to operate as a service business successfully, it has to look at customer needs, and innovate to produce appropriate services and deliver these to the customers. In general, the corporate IT organization provides services to three distinct customers:
1. External business users (consumers, partners, suppliers) to maximize revenue.
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