The changing IT landscape and the evolving role of IT in the Enterprise

Simon May

The IT Department

of today

• Hi• Please hold• Let me log that for

you

• Have you rebooted?• No, reboot• Yeah, ok, try again

• NEW SERVER?• SIX WEEKS• YEAH IT’S LOUD

HERE!

• We don’t really have the budget for new PCs, have you tried paper?

All change

• Cloud• Consumerisation

Pull

Things change

Cloud

Consumerisation

• Awesome I can work whilst washing my pants!

Hybrid the

best of both

worlds

The future of IT?

• Hey Mary!• I fixed your widgety-

thing you care about, ‘cos I know how much you care about it

• Oh yeah and I noticed you were near the end of your 25gb mailbox so I notched it up for you

• Dude you need to make sure you run Windows Update…

• …But don’t worry our network will let you start work just not get to our sensitive stuff before your PC’s up to date

• This is your personal PC? No worries

• I setup federated identity so you’ve got single sign on…

• …yeah Windows Azure’s taking the strain even though we’re seeing a kajillion transactions a second…

• …yeah I’ve balanced the cost with revenue

• Hi Mary, yeah Geoff’s awesome he knew you needed more space and we knew it was the right thing for the business…

• …New product? We can have a product site live in about an hour…

• A kijillon transactions an hour sure you pay for what you use

• Guidance provides a better solution• Enable access to information • Provide ways to connect• Deliver businesses outcomes

• My pants aren’t done yet but my email is!

It’s fun, new exciting,

interesting, engaging, changing,

revolutionary,

evolutionary, different,

cool

Agility

• Are we in a boy band?• No…we’re

a man band!

vDept ?

340 Undecillion

1. Be a guide not a gate keeper

2. Make information available in appropriately

3. Promote inclusion, Prevent exclusion

4. Care about the business and the people in it

5. Let your IT people have play time (measure it)

• Finally a way to wash my pants and do my emails!

My Blog:http://simon-may.com

UK TechNet Blog:http://bit.ly/UKTechNet

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