Doing more with less
Doing more with less is one of the most abused phrase in the IT-Business world in the last 5-7 years. Yes IT budgets are not increasing? Technology has become a key enabler of competitive advantages. Business wants more capabilities fast and furious. IT staff are over stretched and challenged to keep up with ever changing technology.
While all challenges mentioned above are a reality, many IT leaders often ignore the inefficiency of their org setup as a contributing factor to these issues. The discipline of capability management is not effectively utilized in IT. Specialization of capabilities is very important to succeed. Organizations should become ruthless in outsourcing functions like development, support and focus on critical strategic functions. IT service providers have reached a level of maturity these days and can execute these functions well.
In a typical 3 layer organization with BSA-Development-Support teams, making development and support as managed services will almost double the number of connection points with the business. The net effect will be an organizations that executes efficiently it's focus area. This will be very critical for business enablement and working in alignment with business. This strategy will reap big dividends with ever increasing apetite for cloud applications with the business users.
It is very critical to review whether precious human resources are deployed in roles to maximize the value for the organization. Re allocation of resources can increase the value add for business significantly without adding additional cost for the organization.
While all challenges mentioned above are a reality, many IT leaders often ignore the inefficiency of their org setup as a contributing factor to these issues. The discipline of capability management is not effectively utilized in IT. Specialization of capabilities is very important to succeed. Organizations should become ruthless in outsourcing functions like development, support and focus on critical strategic functions. IT service providers have reached a level of maturity these days and can execute these functions well.
In a typical 3 layer organization with BSA-Development-Support teams, making development and support as managed services will almost double the number of connection points with the business. The net effect will be an organizations that executes efficiently it's focus area. This will be very critical for business enablement and working in alignment with business. This strategy will reap big dividends with ever increasing apetite for cloud applications with the business users.
It is very critical to review whether precious human resources are deployed in roles to maximize the value for the organization. Re allocation of resources can increase the value add for business significantly without adding additional cost for the organization.
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