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The End of The (Non-Business Process Savvy) IT Department

VARBusiness reports on a recent Gartner Symposium led by Neil MacDonald titled "The End of the IT Department" where the following prognostication was made,

"By 2015, 90 percent of the employees in 2004 Global 1000 IT departments will have been automated, outsourced or absorbed by other business units, according to Gartner research. In addition, by 2015, 30 percent of the Global 1000 will no longer carry a CIO position. "

Kind of scary? Or kind of exciting?! If you've been evolving (or sliding head-first) toward a more business process view of your IT job, you're moving in the right direction...

"As IT departments change, there will also be a need for new roles within IT organizations and for the parties that cater to these organizations. MacDonald sees the need for a next-generation sort of "business-process architect," a business systems analyst at the process level to orchestrate the flow of information. He also detailed the role of what he called "an enterprise business-process architect," who can oversee business architecture and business systems engineering -- something for solution providers and resellers to consider for their future IT roles as well.

Others also see the need for the role of a business-process architect in IT. During a keynote CIO panel on Tuesday, several leading CIOs assembled for the event said they, too, see the need for such a position inside corporate IT departments. When asked about new roles in the information services area, Tony Cicco, CIO for the General Accounting Office (GAO), who oversees 13 IT teams that address the needs of different parts of the government, said he saw the role of an enterprise architect as a logical step. Cicco also saw the importance of a customer relationship group within IT to service internal clients or employee users.
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I was also happy to find some very relevant information to building out the business process technology stack that I need to find best practices and tools to enable in my new next assignment,

"He sees this being achieved through business processes in XML or Web services, business process management suites and business rule engines, such as workflow, identity and access management. "

Improvise and remain nimble as the end draws near!

As IT departments change, there will also be a need for new roles within IT organizations and for the parties that cater to these organizations. MacDonald sees the need for a next-generation sort of

Posted by outlawv at October 22, 2004 04:36 PM | TrackBack