Changes made to business IT are 'revolutionary'

27 Jan 2012

Changes being made to business IT are revolutionary, according to one expert.

Dr Mark Thompson of the Cambridge Judge Business School said that there is a "quiet revolution" going on in that most IT functions work alongside others and are more integrated with the business as a whole.

"What effectively has happened is that IT has become able to ramp traditional vertically integrated business logic, so stuff that really couldn’t be separated out before, in common standards that introduce a dynamic a little bit more like open source," Dr Thompson stated.

He added that this has implications for a number of departments within a company, saying that, for example, a HR function or an IT function can be chopped up and just part of it is outsourced, which has a massive implication from a commercial perspective.

"Everything works with everything else," he noted.

People looking for IT jobs may wish to familiarise themselves with such new IT processes as they are likely to become increasingly popular moving forwards.
 

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