I am a consultant in a firm specializing in creating Organizational Profiles used to assess theInformation Technology Status and Needs for your client organizations.Essentially, your clients hire you to look into their organizations and identify the factors that affect their IT decisions.

1. What are the Factors that affect IT decisions on most organizations while providing these factors think the about following aspects:

• These are organizational, environmental, and other characteristics that affect IT decisions in an organization.
• Think about the industry, market, product, employee, technology, structure, customer, regulatory, business process/tasks, and other factors.
• Clearly number and identify each factor.
• Provide a brief description of the factor including how your consultant would collect relevant data (e.g., interview managers, survey customers, review reports) and explicitly how and why it affects IT decisions in the organization.