If you are tempted to replace your website using a bespoke content management solution, rather than using an off-the-shelf Content Management System (CMS), think again … and choose a CMS.
The advantages of using a CMS are numerous:
And CMSs don’t need to be expensive - there are a number of free or low cost CMSs - examples include Drupal, Joomla! and Plone. There are also some good resources for further investigations such as CMS Review, CMS Watch and the CMS Matrix.
Many organisations struggle over the best place for IT within the organisation and extracting the best business value from investment.
In his recent book, fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology
He also concludes that there shouldn’t be CIOs. Rather, there should be an individual (a Chief Internal Investment Officer) whose job it is to lead the internal investment portfolio, including all resulting business change, and be accountable for the value the organisation gets out of its investments.
Whilst agreeing with much of what Chris Potts says, the aspect this doesn’t consider is the role that IT has in innovation - bringing radically different ways of working to the organisation; not something that will generally come from within existing business units. The most obvious examples of this are Amazon in retail and Google with advertising (although innovation isn’t always as ground breaking as this).