Quick Flip: Business-Led IT

Quick Flip: Business-Led IT

  
Published in Switched On: The Bowdark Blog -
Digital Transformation
IT Strategy
Switched On Podcast
Low-Code / No-Code

James and Paul pontificate on their experiences working in, with, and under business-led IT, shadow IT, and corporate IT. What’s the best way forward, for IT orgs to have real impact on business outcomes?

Figure 1 below from TechTarget summarizes some of the stats we discussed on the show:

  • 36% of IT spending has now shifted outside of the IT department (and it’s probably an even higher percentage split today)

  • 41% of an organization’s business technologists are now working outside of the IT department

  • 82% of those business technologies are citizen technologists

Figure 1: Statistics Referenced in the Episode from Gartner and TechTarget

Innovations in low code/no code and AI technologies have played a big role in all this, and this trend figures to continue now that we’re in the Age of Copilots. Lots of interesting information in this one — give it a listen here!

About the Author

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James Wood

Best-selling author and SAP Mentor alumnus James Wood is CEO of Bowdark Consulting, a management consulting firm focused on optimizing customers' business processes using Microsoft, SAP, and cloud-based technologies. James' 25 years in software engineering gives him a deep understanding of enterprise software. Before co-founding Bowdark in 2006, James was a senior technology consultant at SAP America and IBM, where he was involved in multiple global implementation projects.

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