Quick Flip: Business-Led IT
This article explores the tension between business-led IT and traditional IT models, arguing that the best outcomes come from a balanced approach where business agility and IT governance work together to deliver real, scalable impact.
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!