38% of technology spending now occurring outside the department … – Computerworld

Gartner forecasts that investment of the business areas in computational resources is expected to reach 50% in 2017

Computerworld

October 7, 2014 – 11.29

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The money allocated for technology projects migrates beyond the hands of CIOs. A recent Gartner survey shows that 38% of spending on technological resources already occurs in initiatives outside of IT departments. This percentage should reach 50% in 2017

This movement makes the consultancy advising executives to embrace more and more solutions “internal startups.” – Marketing departments, human resources, logistics, sales – to meet the demands and use new computational resources as levers of business in their organizations.

Undeniably live in a context of increasingly digital business, which shuffles the virtual and physical worlds mixing processes and influences the way companies use technology to advance market.

There are key concepts that already orbiting the routines of organizations (such as cloud, big data, mobility) and others who still tend to put much more intensively over the next year (the example of the internet things, 3D printing). The combination of these features tends to accelerate a posture of organizational change.

This context increasingly require more skill of the professionals on topics such as user experience, in science data analysis, pervasive and mobile computing, automation and robotics, which, at an interval of seven years must arise positions of integration specialists and architect of digital business within companies, predicts Gartner.

“Digitization is transforming all types of companies and industries. More often than not, these changes represent both a massive opportunity and a substantial challenge for the IT organization. Not only is it a way to gain competitiveness, but also an ability to turn disadvantages into advantages “, signals the consultancy.

So CIOs now gain a unique opportunity to advance leadership practices in information technology, value and people to deliver the digital promise as vectors of business. However, there are some barriers to overcome.

“Perhaps the biggest obstacle when it comes to the opportunity provided by the digital mute lies in the fact that many disciplines developed by IT organizations over the past few years are poorly adapted to explore and respond to demands of the digital business, “sees the consultancy.

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