By Minda Zetlin
Technology enabler or corporate strategist?
With so much IT going on in every corner of most organizations and outside IT leadership’s direct control, some experts argue that the IT department’s most useful role is to provide guidance, consultation and a secure and robust environment to support the often cloud-based systems it no longer owns. In this model, IT functions like a modern-day movie studio, says Charles Araujo, principal analyst at Intellyx and author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT Is About to Change. “Today, a movie studio owns the lot and helps with distribution,” he says. “But they’re bringing together a lot of other organizations that actually make the movie.”
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