Between cloud computing, big data and consumer IT, executives feeling capable of making more of their own technology decisions. And with the ongoing business pressures for speed, agility and innovation, executives are eager to rethink and reinvent the IT department, according to a column in the Wall Street Journal.
“Planning the future of IT by projecting today’s technology trends into the future is at best naïve and at worst dangerously myopic. The future that technologists expect and want may not be the world that CIOs get. Shifting social, economic and political forces will influence what businesses will require from IT,” writes guest contributors Jeanne G. Harris and Allan E. Alter.
The article digs into issues faced by CIOs and some of the difficulties technologists face in an uncertain future.
Today’s technology transition is taking place at a moment of geopolitical, macroeconomic and legal uncertainty. Add the joker lurking in the deck – the potential downsides of our dependence on the Internet – and the uncertainty for enterprise IT grows even more, they wrote.