IT Agility is more important than ever before!
We've all heard discussions on "IT Agility" and how firms who have it are able to engage with their customers, beat their competition, achieve higher ROI, and execute their strategic plans. Today's silver bullet for IT agility is supposedly cloud computing. As in the past, the press and pundits are so gaga over this new concept that it's often portrayed as the panacea for IT agility, but we have heard similar panacea concepts before in our IT careers. Examples include; client-server computing, object oriented programming, business liaison roles, service oriented architectures and many other hot-topic IT concepts. None of these IT concepts ever achieved IT agility. However, I believe we are closer to being able to achieve IT agility than ever before. The difficult part is in defining what an agile IT organization looks like. The dictionary defines agility as the power of moving quickly and easily, with nimbleness. So, in the spirit of opinionated blogs, which is probably redundant and maybe an oxymoron, here's my top three enablers of IT agility.
