Joe Vanden Plas, of Madison’s InBusiness, summarized my keynote address kicking off WTN‘s highly informative FUSION 2012. FUSION is the annual Midwest conference to deepen understanding of the business implications and key success factors associated with new information technology. I’ll blog about what I learned at the conference next seek. For now, read my take on how the information age has transformed the economy and its implications for C-suite leaders and IT professionals.  Thanks Joe! Joe’s summary article In their preoccupation with today’s challenged economic environment, business executives might not have noticed that the nature of competition is changing, but failure to adapt could put an organization on the critical list. So says former Madisonian Kay Plantes, a principal with the San Diego-based Plantes Company who still works in Wisconsin. Plantes, delivering the March 8 keynote at the 2012 Fusion CEO-CIO Symposium, said…