In 2012, a majority of CEOs interviewed during an IBM funded CEO Study identified technology as having the greatest impact on their business. Technology had always featured highly, but this is the first time it was ranked #1.
What does this mean for the IT profession?
You can argue that in future, there will be a need for IT practitioners to focus on enabling business users to consume and control business content for competitive advantage, through a reasoned application of information technology. This requires an IT practitioners to be a
Most c-level executives and technical leaders I have interacted with recently, mostly across Europe, have cited integration and collaboration between IT and Lines of Business as critical success factors for innovative projects. As the CEO study shows, innovation is increasingly delivered through software, applications and technology.
In April 2012, IBM introduced a new bread of Expert Integrated Systems.
Given that solutions are manifested as architectures, Expert Integrated Systems are integrated in the factory to include systems, applications and process components optimized for specific workloads. PureSystems integrates a broad variety of products, technologies and services, various systems and applications architectures, and diverse hardware and software components into a ready to use system. By taking complexity out of enterprise IT systems, IT practitioners are able to dedicate more of their time to creating strategic business outcomes, aligning business needs with appropriate Solutions and technologies.
This is how I see the professional evolving over time, with IT practitioners collaborating across lines of business and IT to align with strategic business planning, solution design and delivery; leveraging ready to use workload optimized Expert Integrated Systems that accelerate time to value.
What does this mean for the IT profession?
You can argue that in future, there will be a need for IT practitioners to focus on enabling business users to consume and control business content for competitive advantage, through a reasoned application of information technology. This requires an IT practitioners to be a
- Consensus builder
- Results oriented
- Generalist
- A technology expert
- Not just a top level software designer
- Not (just) a programmer
- Not the project manager
- Not a product expert
- Not a lone scientist
Most c-level executives and technical leaders I have interacted with recently, mostly across Europe, have cited integration and collaboration between IT and Lines of Business as critical success factors for innovative projects. As the CEO study shows, innovation is increasingly delivered through software, applications and technology.
Given that solutions are manifested as architectures, Expert Integrated Systems are integrated in the factory to include systems, applications and process components optimized for specific workloads. PureSystems integrates a broad variety of products, technologies and services, various systems and applications architectures, and diverse hardware and software components into a ready to use system. By taking complexity out of enterprise IT systems, IT practitioners are able to dedicate more of their time to creating strategic business outcomes, aligning business needs with appropriate Solutions and technologies.
This is how I see the professional evolving over time, with IT practitioners collaborating across lines of business and IT to align with strategic business planning, solution design and delivery; leveraging ready to use workload optimized Expert Integrated Systems that accelerate time to value.
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