Why is IT on its way out?
The fatal flaw of IT is that it is a white elephant. Their solutions are enterprise-wide, which means in attempt to satisfy everyone with a single solution. It will be huge, unwieldy, cost fortune and will be inherently obsolete by the time it is implemented, unless it is spectacular failure.
But let???s say it will eventually be implemented. IT now has a tremendous stake in it. Almost everybody (there may be one or two sane people) will be totally devoted to it and any complaints from users will be explained as the user???s stupidity. Everybody in IT now hopes that they are set for life by supporting the solution. Any suggestions about another solution endanger this rosy future and therefore will be rigorously opposed.
On the other hand, when an individual business unit searches for a solution, it will be by necessity small and cheap. Computing is not a primary function, there are no dedicated support personnel and there are no ???experts??? and most importantly, there is no money. Nothing new there. Departmental solutions always existed along with the gargantuan enterprise solutions which were incapable of solving the departmental problems. Let???s face it, not all the departmental data have to be shared enterprise wide and what has to be shared, could be done easily via cloud.
