COVER STORY: Timing is Everything

iSource Business wants to know what happened. From enthusiastic binging to massive budget cutting, corporate IT spending has weathered erratic mismanagement. Have businesses pushed too far too fast in their frenzy to be e-savvy? Or have they wimped out...


[From iSource Business, November 2001] After spending almost three years and hundreds of millions of dollars in IT investment, Visa U.S.A. is about to make serious use of its new global financial portal, Visa  Direct Exchange. Sara Garrison, who honchos Visa's IT department and directly managed the colossal effort, is, to say the least, psyched.