With any IT Project deliverable, you will have invested in an evolving platform that can keep your business functions relevant and your users engaged over its lifetime. What are some ideas behind ensuring you remain on the upgrade path, able to use new features added in the future, and keeping your application aligned to your business? It’s all about aligning your IT Projects within an overall applications and business strategy. Mike Gilbert is a solution architect at Intergen, having been in the IT industry for over twenty years. He has presented at the New Zealand Sharepoint conference and enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for IT with like-minded people. Mike's interest lies in making sure organisations get the maximum return out of their investment in technology. In this session, he combines his passion for strategic vision with his knowledge of technologies - using Dynamics CRM in specific examples but relevant to any IT platform or application. Get some ideas that you can take back to your workplace for discussions around your project implementations to ensure the right conversations take place and you get the most value for your money possible. Learn what constitutes good decisions for the future of your solution suite.