Aligning The Pace Of Change With The Rhythm Of Your Business
James Griffin, 14/12/2009, posted in "Analysis"
James Griffin is Head of Hosting Strategy at Star. James is responsible for the strategy behind Star's hosted services, including managed hosting, e-mail and hosted applications. Before joining the ...more info
James Griffin is Head of Hosting Strategy at Star. James is responsible for the strategy behind Star's hosted services, including managed hosting, e-mail and hosted applications. Before joining the team at Star in 2007, James held senior Product, Marketing and Sales roles at UK providers Fasthosts and Namesco. ...less info
The benefits of adopting an on-demand based service model are well documented and perhaps over-debated; we know that one of the key drivers to adopt is speed of deployment, which manifests itself in your business ultimately as change.
Driving and accelerating change is a key goal of many business and IT organisation heads; however, it is important to introduce this change wisely and in a considered way to ensure that gaps between capability and ability to execute do not appear. When these two factors are miss-aligned, not only are the key benefits of on-demand services lost, you add additional cost and complexity into your organisation.
With a plethora of services to now choose from, it is more important than ever to ensure that use of IT is a key strategic component in your organisation utilised to give you capability and competitive edge. This means understanding the pace of change that is required to achieve your strategic aims and using IT services , whether in-house or delivered on demand, as a series of enabling platforms and tools.
This places senior IT decision makers as trusted advisors to the business, with a real stake in overall business change.
As always, I would be interested to hear your comments, but particularly your thoughts on how this changes the day to day expectations placed on IT departments who still have to “keep the lights on” on a day to day basis. You can also download my company’s whitepaper called “Turning IT into a Strategic Business Driver” here.
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