Over the last few years, not only the way the IT industry
operates has changed significantly, but also its perception by business. Today's
standard was difficult to imagine a few years ago, and today's challenges are
only a foretaste of what business will need in the future.
Yesterday
The operational activity of many companies took place mainly
in the off-line world, where IT and software development only supported their
operation, and advanced on-line technologies were not crucial to achieving an
advantage on the market. Many organizations were based on monolithic IT systems
developed over the years, requiring costly refactoring emerging along with the
need to integrate with new business elements. This was often the reason why IT
was perceived as not responding quickly enough to the new needs of the business
side. With limited budgets, IT departments had to implement solutions that
continued to generate technological debt (on a smaller scale, but still). Buzzwords
such as Agile, AI, Big Data, BlockChain, Marketplace, Micoservices, and the
Cloud began to appear, being a breath of the upcoming new approach in IT.
Today
Currently, we all understand that efficient IT systems are
not only necessary for the proper functioning of many organizations, but also
often constitute the source of their competitive advantage. Customer
expectations, and thus also business expectations in this field, resulted in a
significant increase in IT budgets, which translated into an increase in the
demand for IT specialists, and thus their price on the labor market. Thanks to
new technologies and flexibility provided by the cloud, macro-services, machine
learning, and the increasingly better understood Agile methodology, IT is able
to deliver business value faster and tries to catch up with the ever-growing
business needs. Hybrid and remote work have become a fact, although we are
increasingly seeing the threats they pose.
Tomorrow
In the future, we will further automate the software
development process, thanks to which we will be able to deliver new stable and
reusable IT solutions necessary for the expansion of our business even faster. Flexible,
self-scalable and self-learning IT systems will become a natural element of the
organization's development. Maintaining the coherence of hybrid / remote
working teams and their commitment to the company will become a key challenge,
increasing the importance of team management and thus the demand for leaders. Strong
and flexible IT in an organization will become like electricity at home -
obvious to everyone.
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