As an IT leader, it is time to take your seat at the business table and understand how IT can stay relevant in this Internet of Everything era. A recent Gartner Insight highlights the importance of aligning IT strategies with business goals to “remain relevant beyond 2020.” The next logical evolution on the IT journey is to provide consistent methodology that’s embedded into the IT operating model over time. In order to accomplish this businesses and IT must start working together. Business leaders need to:
- Adjust IT so it can quickly adapt to changing business values
- Reduce complexity and the cost of operations
- Protect data, innovation, and intellectual property
Read the full blog in The Platform series of Cisco Blogs.
The IT should be built around the business and customer base – yet, many want the business to be built around the IT (especially many tech-heads). Doing the latter is a mistake in the long-term, if not also the short-term.