The effective use of information technology is increasingly important to business success. However, the same may not be true for the Information Technology function. In fact, within the next five years we will see a fundamental restructuring of corporate IT with business leaders taking a larger role in managing technology themselves.
I think that all in IT or connected to it in some way should read this and ponder on it.
Technology is changing so fast and more and more people are technology savvy that IT is becoming more hardware commodity oriented. How we use it is being driven harder by the users and not by IT.
In some (note some)cases IT with all it's concerns have inhibited productivity and that brings companies to a standstill. We need to find ways to be more productive and this article is leading toward IT being brought into the business or outsourcing for shared services.
I know that in training for SharePoint users I had some IT people and their first concern was how to shut off some of the tools for collaboration as too much trouble to be overseeing. I guess I have never forgotten that because I was on the other side, "look at the things you can do, how great is this".
NOW for IT people; Start thinking about where you are going in the next 5 years. Think about this: 5 years ago is like yesterday, 5 years into the future is tomorrow.
