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Explore the Art of the Possible for Exponential IT
As technology moves exponentially, so must your entire organization – led by IT.
Technologies such as generative AI have ushered in a new era of exponential opportunities and risk. Constantly playing catch-up will leave IT – and organizations as a result – increasingly falling behind the curve.
The answer? Exponential IT, a framework defined by Info-Tech Research Group to instruct IT leaders across nine domains on how to elevate their maturity and value creation capabilities, which have implications across all traditional IT domains.
To close the gap between the exponential progression of technological change and current linear trajectories, IT will have to be the agent of change for the organization.
Get ready to lead the charge
Use the insights in each of the following primers to help you:
- Explore the art of the possible. Leaders in every IT domain must take action now to prepare for rapid technological change.
- Bring a clear vision to the table. Highlight what’s at stake for your organization as we pass the inflection point of exponential change.
Explore the Art of the Possible for Exponential IT Research & Tools
1. Strategy, Risk, and Governance
Earn and own your seat at the table to govern new technology adoption, leverage risk’s potential to create value and advantage, and co-own organizational outcomes.
2. Project and Portfolio Management
Automate traditional PMO capabilities, plan in real time, and enable true accountability.
3. People and Leadership
Embrace federated and hybrid models, design an outcome-based delivery network, and prioritize human-centered leadership.
4. Service Planning and Architecture
Focus on customer value delivery, take a coaching approach to architect business capabilities, and create integrated enterprise services.
5. IT Financial and Vendor Management
Implement financial management practices that can fund exponential value creation, boost your vendor management practices, and measure outcomes.
6. Security and Privacy
Strengthen your ability to defend against AI-enabled attacks, mitigate rampant privacy risks, and enable autonomous decision-making.
7. Data, Analytics, and AI
Treat your data as a product, augment your data for more value, and team up DataOps with MLOps.
8. Applications
Use AI and ML to deliver autonomously, use natural language to deliver organizational outcomes, and elevate your business relationship management practices.
9. Infrastructure and Operations
Let AI take over core operations, implement FinOps, and abstract away underlying infrastructure to support autonomous provisioning.
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Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Brief primer to understand the implications of Exponential IT across nine domains.
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Andrew Sharp
Anubhav Sharma
Fred Chagnon
Natalie Sansone
Andrew Neill
Ari Glaizel
Barry Cousins
Brittany Lutes
Cameron Smith
Carlene McCubbin
Isabelle Hertanto
Jack Hakimian
Jeremy Roberts
John Annand
Sandi Conrad
Scott Bickley
Steve Jeffery
Steve Willis
Tom Zehren
Travis Duncan
Valence Howden
Aaron Shum
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Last Revised: August 21, 2024
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