Transformational change enabled by Information Technology (IT) has been a fact of life in recent times - and that is unlikely to go away.  Today's organisations face the challenge of relentless change and many struggle to proactively plan their enterprise’s evolution. How do we plan and deliver an IT-enabled future, while adapting to the changes wrought all around them.

It is a delight for me to be guest editor for the first issue of the Alinement Magazine for 2012 and bring together a number of different author's responses to this challenge.
 
To ensure interesting and diverse viewpoints, I asked colleagues from around the globe to share their thoughts on planning and delivering the IT-enabled enterprise.  The response has been overwhelming, with many more articles than originally expected. As a result, I expect that I will be delivering more editions of the Alinement Magazine!  

In this edition, you see different views on planning the IT-enabled future, predominantly from an Australian perspective.  In a future edition, we’ll take a more global perspective, with input from Spain, Argentina, Netherlands, Portugal and other countries.  Finally, we will tackle the theme of delivering the outcomes intended in the new plans for IT-enabled business.

Please take the time to consider the views of specialists in corporate governance, planning and change management, as they explore aspects of the central challenge: planning the evolution of the modern, IT-enabled enterprise.