{"id":1672,"date":"2010-11-18T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2010-11-18T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T15:00:11","slug":"technology-demise-of-enterprise-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-demise-of-enterprise-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enterprise IT Revolution:  Demise of Enterprise IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise IT as we know it today will be a thing of the past within ten years time. \u00a0That&#8217;s the forecast by analysts at <a title=\"ZapThink and the Demise of Enterprise IT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zapthink.com\/2010\/09\/22\/the-demise-of-the-enterprise-it-department-a-crisis-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZapThink<\/a>. \u00a0They&#8217;re calling the current situation a &#8216;crisis point&#8217;. \u00a0While most IT managers can see that changes are happening everywhere around them and with rapid speed, they also tend to be in denial that the changes will have a major impact on their way of doing business. \u00a0Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink said that &#8220;today\u2019s CIOs are aware of individual forces of change impacting their organizations, but they don\u2019t have sufficient breadth of vision to see how many trends interact.&#8221; \u00a0<a title=\"Ronacld Schmeltzer on Enterprise IT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zapthink.com\/2009\/05\/07\/preventing-the-demise-of-the-it-department\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Schmeltzer<\/a> of ZapThink said that if CIOs don&#8217;t have a strong rudder to steer their IT policies and practices through the upcoming storms that they could very well end up being &#8220;dashed on the rocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The five &#8216;supertrends&#8217; that ZapThink&#8217;s points to as being behind all this change for Enterprise IT are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Global Cubicle<\/strong> &#8211; Communication technology increasingly lets people interact at the personal level with anyone in the world as if they &#8216;were in the same cubicle&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Democratization of Technology<\/strong> &#8211; The barrier to acquiring and configuring technology solutions is shrinking, minimizing the need for a specialized IT group<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location Independence<\/strong> &#8211; It no longer matters where technology components are physically located<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deep Interoperability<\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s becoming easier for different technologies to be able to interconnect<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complex System Engineering<\/strong> &#8211; Technology is more frequently baking in properties, like enabling business agility, requiring less customizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first three of these points are clearly being realized already today, while the last two are long-held technology\u00a0problems that may not happen as quickly as ZapThink predicts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a 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