Summary: Guest: Larry Bonfante Title: Chief Information Officer, the United States Tennis Association, Author Guest: Marc Brown Title: SVP Corporate Service Center and CIO at Del Monte Foods IT can no longer remain just an enabler! Since Business success depends on the enterprise's agility and its ability to respond as quickly as possible to economic and competitive threats, the need to find ways to reduce time to market, accelerate deliveries to customers, reduce days-of-inventory turns, cut customer wait times, shorten the order-to-cash cycle, etc., has never been greater. Now, given that IT is best situated to affect the whole spectrum of end-to-end processes across the whole organization, doesn't IT have the mandate to morph into a business accelerator?
