By annie shum | May 7, 2009
Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director of MWD just posted an interesting take on recession and IT redemption through the lens of martial arts. Here’s what Neil wrote:
These are challenging times, and challenging times create fertile ground for disruption – both in business and IT models. There’s a popular narrative echoing around the IT press and the blogosphere that has businesses eroding the authority and responsibility of their own IT competencies at an accelerating rate, fueled by disillusionment with IT’s ability to deliver, increasing (consumer-driven) expectations of how IT should perform in the workplace, and the ready availability of hosted, subscription-based IT services.
It’s true that in today’s environment, any IT organisation that sits on its hands should by rights find itself being seriously challenged. Rather than acting defensively, now is the time for IT organisations to get more assertive; today’s environment presents a fantastic opportunity for IT to redeem itself in the eyes of its business customers. The secret is to use a martial arts principle: use your balance to divert your enemy’s strength to your advantage.
CIOs and architects should proactively explore the potential of “threatening” technologies and sourcing options, and find ways to champion them to executives – showing how a blend of approaches, used in targeted ways to fit the needs of particular business areas and initiatives and deployed within a consistent IT governance, architecture and planning framework, creates an agile, cost-effective business platform.
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