THE IMPACT OF NON-TECHNICAL FACTORS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY AND E-BUSINESS

IT strategy and E-business has come to stay as important issues in many organisations. They are developed and implemented for the main purpose of improving, supporting and enabling their business goals and objectives. These requirements for support and enablement of the IT strategy and E-business are increasingly present in many organisations. IT strategy and E-business are breaking old barriers and building new interconnections in what is referred to by many specialists as the emerging Global Village. IT is bringing business communities and the world at large, closer, and making the global village smaller. This paper is focused on influencing factors, whether on the development or on the implementation of IT strategy and E-business within the computing environment of an organisation. One important outcome is the new role of knowledgeable workers (people factor) and involvement in the implementation of IT strategy and E-business in organisation.