Transforming IT into a cloud service broker
January 8, 2014
Grazed from InformationAge. Author: Ben Rossi.
Analyst and research firm Forrester predicted in November 2013 that 10 trends would dominate the information technology landscape in 2014. Amongst them was the belief that IT will become an agile service broker and if it doesn?t it will simply fade away. This trend is occurring because many of the leading IT organisations are moving away from what it describes as being aligned IT in favour of empowered business technology practices.
This transformation will include some significant modifications to the software development lifecycle. Changes will also occur in the realms of managing and developing IT architecture, as well as impacting on solutions development in order to deliver mobile, cloud and big data solutions more readily than today…
Portfolio management will change too. Forrester says that IT will concentrate more on products rather than on IT projects. This is apparently because projects are more in focus and this in itself diminishes the value derived from them. Additionally, the success metrics will be replaced and move away from measuring the performance of project management in terms of time, cost and resources towards an emphasis on value, capacity and time-to-market metrics…
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