The Role of IT in Business Strategy: Four Trends Reshaping the Modern Enterprise by Hayden Lindsey in Enterprise Executive on March 4, 2013
For several years, the IT department has been in a state of transition within large companies and organizations. While back-office systems are as vital as ever—these being what technology consultant Geoffrey Moore calls “systems of record”—IT is supplying more strategic value to businesses as they support new “systems of engagement.”
Indeed, IT’s role within the larger organization is being reshaped, with IBM and Rational seeing four important trends to modernizing enterprise, multi-platform management and development:
• Portfolio strategy and management
• Mobile enterprise development
• Continuous integration
• Cloud computing.