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Technology Footprint
Recently, the word “footprint” has gained a lot of popularity when people talk about emissions and carbon consumption. But “footprint” is becoming quite rampant in the information technology world as well. In its original form, the footprint contains a lot of information about the identity of its owner. So in looking for ways to determine the value of IT investments, Andrew McAfee is developing the concept of technology footprint.
He said that the technology footprint is the functional, divisional, and geographic reach; basically, it is a description on how much territory a particular IT can cover. Knowing the technology’s footprint is one of the core elements that organizations use for better design and the evaluation of IT projects. The other two components in the technology footprint include cost and capability.
For example, network technologies have incredibly large footprints because this includes the e-mail and other connectivity technology. On the other hand, function technology has small ones because these include the CAD system which is not used outside the engineering field. Meanwhile, enterprise technologies such as CRM can either have large footprints or small ones because it is highly complex. The borders of the enterprise technology should be set very carefully.
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