Thought Leadership- The Changing Face of IT

The process for successful adoption of IT has changed over the last decades. IT used to be the reserve of the technologist and required people with high innovative excellence to exploit effectively. IT development was performed by academics with doctorates and the top intellects in the country.

This has now changed. Successful IT adoption for commercial gain is no longer about straight innovation from base principles, architecting, designing and writing great code, it is about successful integration of 3rd Party developments and other peoples code. Yes even for that piece of tricky coding that is necessary to integrate that new module, then you can say with 99% certainty, someone has done it before. Now with the reach of the web and knowledge sources then the task has changed to find the solution, adapt and adopt it.

This means the successful CIO or Practice Leader is now far more of a business man with a commercial mindset who needs to understand the business landscape seek solutions, adapt and adopt. The technologist of yesterday needs to be the integrator of today.

Secondly to have efficient commercials you need to off-shore. Whatever people say about the capability of off-shore groups then there are very clever people out there and it is the role of the IT Director to find them and to use them in the correct way. It is now good asking a technologist with pure IT skills to be innovative around a business solution, you need to find the person with the right skills. So get the on-shore off-shore balance right initially with a higher on-shore content and then as your model starts to deliver move more activities off-shore to reap the commercial advantage.

So in summary the new IT world is about finding existing solutions, adapting and adopting in the most commercially viable way. The days of the IT pure technologist have gone!!

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