As the article says 2008 will be a watershed year, and IT leaders face a crucial decisions. Their future is very uncertain, because of the economic headwinds. How to be a leader and not become just bystander?
Today’s IT market is changing very fast. New trends give new opportunities, but also bring new surprises like general downturn. When it comes to new risk- “this is the moment when calculated risk and intelligent leadership will separate winners from losers.”
Key Findings
- Economic turbulence will make industry to change expectations and plan new strategies.
- IT leaders can face recession with deeper, wider innovation.
- Environmental issues and talent management- two recent focuses
- Six megatrends will yield the imperatives for action.
- Business experience and horizontal influencing skill-keys to the success of IT leaders.
Based on findings the article gives new recommendations to IT leaders:
- they should trim current-year costs and anticipate recession effects
- the recession is slow, but plan far ahead
- they should innovate business models proactively, not wait to be told.
- IT leaders should globalize their businesses, supporting emerging markets' growth.
- they should connect organizations for productivity
- socialize technology and organizations by fully exploiting Web 2.0.
- industrialize the enterprise technology platform via the cloud.
- advance the mission and capabilities of the IT department ( information management and operational technology integration)
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