Dealing with the IT label

I have long held that we have a labelling problem with IT in that anything with the label attached is thrown over the transom to the IT function when, in many cases, what we are really dealing with is a business issue. HP now seems to have also come to this conclusion - they are, to quote Howard Solomon in the 3oth April edition of IT World Canada, "dumping the moniker" of "information technology" and moving on to "business technology". Ann Livermore, Vice-President of HP's Technology Solutions Group says: "The age of information technology as we know it is over, the shift to business technology enables CIOs to weigh and measure their investment in terms of business outcomes."