Comments on: The IT department we have today is not the IT department we’ll need tomorrow

By: This is Not Your Daddy’s IT Department « IT Blagger 3.0

This is Not Your Daddy’s IT Department « IT Blagger 3.0 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:48:16 +0000

[...] I came across an excellent Peter Evans-Greenwood piece from a few months ago on a related theme – namely the future of the IT department. I found it so interesting I decided to forgo my other post for now and jot down some [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:12:00 +0000

The process based (decide plan manage and do) strategic outcome as described above are very appealing at the first sight but misses the complexity raised by consumer & technology trend. We need to base our vision on catalyst which drives the change.

By: Balasubramanian

Balasubramanian — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:19:06 +0000

Very insightful post...Had a similar observation in my blog recenty.
http://architectsoul.blogspot.com/2010/06/it-is...

By: PEG: What a great blog « Tony Pauley – Innovation and Technology Leader

Mon, 17 May 2010 19:01:01 +0000

[...] of IT a lot of thought lately. Especially the split between onshore and offshore. PEG has a great article that covered this perfectly. I think I was on the right [...]

By: Peter Evans-Greenwood

Peter Evans-Greenwood — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:14:16 +0000

I've been wondering about that too, and seem to be coming to the conclusion that how the IT function is spread around the business is orthogonal to the type of roles required (i.e. the triangle). Some business have already taken a federated approach, where the lines-of-business are more-or-less full responsibility for IT, with a centralised procurement function providing purchasing scale.

The most interesting thing to note is that the thinning our of the middle ranks is making this sort of transformation much easier.

By: npeeters

npeeters — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:49:36 +0000

Very insightful Peter.

By: Greg Quinn

Greg Quinn — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:16:19 +0000

Peter,

I agree with a lot of what you've said particularly the idea of automation which I've touched on http://qubesystems.com/?p=69

However, behind all this is a much more fundamental question. Is corporate I.T. a legacy department, destined ultimately to disappear?

It's not too difficult to imagine a future where all of corporate I.T'.s functions have been dispatched elsewhere. The technical stuff could be outsourced and the business strategy stuff could, and arguable, should be handed over to the operational arms of the business. This really only leaves vendor management which could be probably be relocated in a corporate purchasing function.

By: raghu p

raghu p — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:49:16 +0000

Intuitive, insightful, logical analogy..do beleive in this note by PEG