Gartner recently announced it’s 10 most disruptive technologies for the next five years and it’s no surprise that Cloud Computing and Cloud/Web platforms made the list.
Let's be clear. Gartner defined a disruptive technology as “one that causes major change in the accepted way of doing things, including business models, processes, revenue streams, industry dynamics, and consumer behavior.” Not to be confused with technologies that are going to put companies at risk.
I found the most intriguing part of the article to be David Cearley’s take on the future state of the CIO:
“According to Mr. Cearley, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who see their jobs as ‘keeping the data centre running, business continuity planning and finding new technology toys to show to people’ will not survive. Instead, they will have to think beyond the constraints of conventional, in order to identify the technologies that might be in widespread use a few years from now.”
Yes, it’s true that CIO’s will have to change their stripes, but for that matter, all IT organizations within businesses today will be required to establish a new and different kind of value to businesses. Large companies with IT talent onboard and deeper bench strength will have to do some soul searching to assess where their core competence lies and what opportunities are afforded them as a result of Cloud Computing.
For smaller companies that don’t possess much in the way of IT talent to begin with, Cloud Computing is ushering in a whole new era of affordable IT alternatives that provide many of the same advantages present in much larger installations without the burden of investing in the staff to support it. Many of these advantages are obvious while others, which are very important to understand, are more subtle.
We’ll explore these advantages that are immediately available to the small and mid-sized owner-operators in a series of follow-up blogs beginning with the next edition.
Thanks for reading.
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