October 7, 2011
The future role of IT
The German monthly CIO Magazin recently published excerpts from "The Empowered BT CIO", a study conducted by Forrester Research. The study provides insight into the future role of IT and the responsibilities of CIOs that arise from that.
One interesting result of the study was that the way CIOs are spending their time is changing. According to the findings of the survey, the time spent managing applications and infrastructures will be reduced from 60 percent to a mere 25 percent. This will free up time, allowing them to focus on innovation and the management of services. But in order to be able to reduce the time and effort spent on the management of applications and infrastructures accordingly, companies need to adopt measures to consolidate and industrialize their IT in a timely manner.
Standardization, IT harmonization, and flexible infrastructures should be at the core of any of those considerations. Alternative operation concepts present another opportunity for companies to make room for strategic tasks.
Follow these links for more information:
http://www.cio.de/bild-zoom/2283616/1/689048/EL_13117957337503137715786/ (in German)
http://www.cio.de/rolle-des-cio/2283616/ (in German)
http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/empowered_bt_cio/q/id/60255/t/2
http://www.realtech.com/sap-it-optimization/
