Many CXOs are building networked businesses that accelerate internal and external collaboration, enable real-time decision making, enhance core process areas such as customer care and product life-cycle management, and enable the outsourcing of non-core activities and partnering with the right players who will share the risk and rewards associated with R&D. The Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Global Aerospace and Defense Practice helps IT executives maximize client services for economic profit by showing them how to use IT to transform business processes, particularly in the areas of IT excellence, customer care, and supply-chain management.