According to a recent research report released by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), and reported on by CIO Insight, jobs that are currently seen as IT Jobs will be moving to other parts of the organization.
The report has some very interesting numbers….here’s a sampling from the CIO Insight slideshow:
- Less than 25% of employees now in IT will remain in IT
- Most activities IT currently manages will move into other areas of the organization
- The current functionally organized central office (with IT, HR, Finance, etc) is reaching the limits of its efficiency
- Technology is moving to more of a platform as service rather than platform as infrastructure
Interesting stuff…I looked for the actual report from CEB but couldn’t find anything else written on it with more details.
Without the report, I can’t really argue the points above…but I think the are fairly accurate.
We are already seeing a large move to virtualization and the cloud as a platform. With that move, is there really a need to have a large IT staff to manage a virtualized IT Infrastructure? Perhaps not.
If anyone knows of a more in-depth review of the CEB’s report, please pass it along…I’d like to read more about the report.
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