Near Future of Corporate IT

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Two articles, published by the US-based IT information portal Datamation, in last six weeks bring up the same issue: whether corporate IT as we know IT will survive after 2010?

The first article “Will IT Still be Around in 2010?” provides very solid analysis of why the enterprise IT will not go away by 2010 but will look a lot different. According to the article, high level IT functions like integrated applications and, particularly, true alignment of IT and business objectives will survive the commoditization of low-level functions like functioning e-mail and a network.

As the result of upcoming changes, pure techies will be a rare breed in the corporate IT and they will be working for outsourcers or specialty boutiques.

This forecast is supported by Gartner research refer erred by another Datamation article “Gartner: IT Staff to Shrink 15% by 2010”.

The number of IT staffers may shrink by 15 percent within five years, according to the new Gartner report. And they also predict that by 2010, six out of 10 people affiliated with the IS organization will assume business-facing roles around information, process and relationships.

Rise of outsourcing will keep pressing on the IT internal workers to match high standards of the outsourcers.

These two articles just reinforce our viewpoint – if an IT professional wants to survive the Information Age, he or she should better be ready.

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