Comments on: Prepare for the Future of IT Organization, or Be Left Behind http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/prepare-for-the-future-of-it-organization/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= Career, Personal & Commercial Development for IT Professionals, IT Leaders & IT Freelancers Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:15:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: simonstapleton http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/prepare-for-the-future-of-it-organization/#comment-112 simonstapleton Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:08:30 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/prepare-for-the-future-of-it-organization/#comment-112 @Eric - thanks for your comment. There are two (of many) major reasons why the fortune 500 companies are moving this way. 1) they look for synergies across their whole IT capability and consolidate where possible into a shared services model. It is run as a cost-centre as you say and efficiency is a key objective. Outsourcing is driving infrastructure towards a service management model as well. 2) Business Technology is beginning to be funded out of business projects and is therefore separate from infrastructure. The kind of leadership, engagement models and management practices are very different. @Eric - thanks for your comment. There are two (of many) major reasons why the fortune 500 companies are moving this way. 1) they look for synergies across their whole IT capability and consolidate where possible into a shared services model. It is run as a cost-centre as you say and efficiency is a key objective. Outsourcing is driving infrastructure towards a service management model as well. 2) Business Technology is beginning to be funded out of business projects and is therefore separate from infrastructure. The kind of leadership, engagement models and management practices are very different.

]]> By: Eric http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/prepare-for-the-future-of-it-organization/#comment-111 Eric Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:08:55 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/prepare-for-the-future-of-it-organization/#comment-111 I definitely see this trend in the enterprise. Our IT shop is divided into 2 components: Infrastructure (traditional IT) and Applications (essentially the Business Technology portion). Infrastructure gets run as a cost center. The application side gets run more along the lines of innovations and operates under more of an agile premise. Being one division of many in a Fortune 500 corporation makes it difficult to compare our progress (or lack thereof) to other divisions because this arena is still emerging. But that's part of the fun, too. -Eric I definitely see this trend in the enterprise. Our IT shop is divided into 2 components: Infrastructure (traditional IT) and Applications (essentially the Business Technology portion).

Infrastructure gets run as a cost center. The application side gets run more along the lines of innovations and operates under more of an agile premise.

Being one division of many in a Fortune 500 corporation makes it difficult to compare our progress (or lack thereof) to other divisions because this arena is still emerging. But that’s part of the fun, too.

-Eric

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