With the holidays behind us – or at least winding down – depending on what you celebrate, time is ticking away on the last few days of 2011. As you bag up the shredded wrapping paper, and start taking down your decorations, take a moment to ponder the year ahead as well.

Virtually all business rely on technology to some extent. The difference between businesses that succeed, and those that fail lies in which ones let the technology dictate limitations, or get in the way of business, and which ones recognize the value of technology and use it as the strategic advantage that it is.