IT Assets—Control by Importance and Exception: Supporting the "Paradigm of Change"
Mordechai Ben-Menachem, G.S. Marliss · IEEE Software · 2005
Enterprise IT and, along with it, IT management have become increasingly complex. Continuous changes in hardware, software, communications, and organizational requirements force continual procedural changes to both business and engineering processes. These changes can be evolutionary because of normal business competition or revolutionary resulting from a merger, an acquisition, or a decision to replace a legacy system with a major commercial package.