As 2020 approaches, CIOs must move from providing a business support function to becoming part of business teams and helping them create innovative products and services. CIOs who do not stage this transformation will become marginalized by cloud providers and business IT groups that will introduce high-level business processes, applications and data analysis development tools.
Today, IT is only used to drive competitive advantage in 50 percent of enterprises.
"As computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, the IT department will naturally spread across the corporation," says Charette.
Mark Potts, CTO of HP Software, agrees: "It's important to look at what the IT department means, going forward, in terms of a responsibility rather than an organizational structure. We all think about centralized IT and the person in charge being a CIO. I think the notion of centralized IT will diminish as an organization a construct, as companies look for greater agility, but the responsibilities for managing brokered hybrid delivery and the associated quality, risk and cost management won't be abdicated, and the CIO is likely to have to manage this across enterprise."
Businesses are increasingly looking to IT to create differentiation and innovation for their products and services. Today, IT is only used to drive competitive advantage in 50 percent of
This trend is not about IT partnering with the business. It's about IT professionals becoming members of business teams and being measured and rewarded in the same way as the business teams with whom they work.