Gartner Group's May 17th press release "Gartner Says a High-Performance Workplace Will Be Essential to Business Success During Next Decade" explains why innovative firms will view IT as a strategic enabler for productivity and innovation, rather than as a cost of doing business. Wondering if your company has the right perspective? One indicator: to whom does your head of IT report? Give yourself 50 points if you said "the CEO"; subtract 50 points if you said "the CFO".

The press release identifies five technologies as key to enabling the high-performance workplace: content and knowledge base management, expertise location, search and classification, collaboration support, and business and competitive intelligence.

Quotes from Tom Austin, group vice president and Gartner Fellow:

"To increase competitive advantage, organizations need to look for opportunities to increase market impact, including value and agility, by investing in a high-performance workplace."

"[Traditionally] IT has been a roadblock to agility, innovation and creativity; it has been anti-creative and anti-collaborative. The high-performance workplace is focused on the unstructured, on transformational agility, innovation and creativity without losing sight of structured obligations."

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