CIO Magazine: “CIOs continue to grapple with the same IT challenges they dealt with five and even 10 years ago.” Excerpts below. Full post at http://tinyurl.com/yduevcl
I want to know when will we begin to see change?
“No one ever claimed that managing corporate IT systems was easy, or without its fare share of tumult, or for the faint of heart. But during the past decade, as better IT tools emerged in the high-tech industry—such as application integration software, Web-based software delivery methods, project implementation strategies and virtualization techniques—it would be reasonable to think that the overall management of IT might have become less arduous and risky.
As 2010 rolls around, that appears not to be the case. The cluttered and ever-expanding technological jungle that IT ecosystems now resemble seems, in many respects, to be much harder and more expensive to manage than it did a decade ago, when CIOs and their staffs were fresh off their Y2K victory celebrations (remember that?).
Consider a couple of data points from a 2009 survey…
Complexity Hinders Software Success. “Two-thirds of survey respondents say the enterprise IT environment is more complex than it was five years ago,” …[it] has raised the level of business IT complexity to the point of holding back software success.”
“Financial Upside” Is Left on the Table. Fifty-three percent of respondents said that, on average, “fewer than half of users are effectively using installed software in the enterprise,” …most companies are leaving benefits such as reduced costs, increased revenues and improved competitive differentiation on the table—benefits that were cited as the rationale behind the software investment in the first place.”
IT Still Gets Blamed for Failures. Nearly 60 percent of respondents claim that the CEO still holds IT responsible for a “lack of success”…
And then there’s the tidal wave of corporate data barreling down on organizations: Gartner predicts that the amount of enterprise data will grow 650 percent during the next five years. Yet according to a Forbes Insights survey…one of the top barriers to aligning strategy and operations today is the availability of timely data.
…But when IT’s top priority for 2009…is “modernizing key legacy applications,” as detailed in a Forrester survey of more than 2,200 IT executives and technology decision-makers in North America and Europe, then companies might have a sizable problem on their hands as we forge into a new decade.”
Posted by Kathy Sandler on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 11:31 PM