One of the weaknesses of the domestic Australian I.T. industry in the years prior to the emergence of the internet as a business platform is that it never really developed into the fully integrated ecosystem. A deeply embedded, collaborative integration with the wider business community simply didn’t exist. But the need for such collaboration, while more common, is not wholly widespread. In part that is because those integrations require companies to think differently about who they connect with and how, and that in turn requires new thinking on the part of company boards and leadership teams charged with developing strategy.