My draft submission to Oxford Economics’s global study of digital trends:
The key trend to date has been a hotch-potch of ‘cloud’ and ‘not-so-cloud’ based implementations that have been delivered on a ‘point solution’, individual business case, without any over-arching vision or long-term IT strategy. Largely, business people and techies have been leading the decision-making process, with neither having the requisite grasp of long-term IT strategy. Policy has masqueraded as strategy. The consequences are already manifesting themselves as organisations find their shiny new toys increasingly expensive and complex to administer and join-up.
Strategies that deliver flexible IT frameworks that can respond quickly to changing business needs, whilst enabling sustainable transformation, will become a major influence in the sustainability of the business model. Thus there will be significant commercial advantage gained by those organisations that can deliver architectural governance over their IT strategy. The key trend going forward will be the dawning realisation that IT strategy can make or break your business.
David Gale – November 2010
CEO
SITFO.org
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