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10 action items IT departments should complete by next year

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10 action items IT departments should complete by next year
By Joe McKendrick | March 4, 2012

Summary: Accenture compiles the top 5 forces reshaping IT, and what should be done about them within the next 12 months. We know that there are a number of trends and initiatives — including Platform as a Services (PaaS), big data, social, and mobile — that are changing the nature of information technology work. We know those forces are present in most organizations today. Accenture Technology Labs just released its Technology Vision 2012 forecast, which identifies these emerging IT developments — based on input from the Labs’ scientists, architects, and engineers, as well as crowdsourced perspectives from across the industry. Accenture says the time to act on these changes to IT priorities is now. We culled 10 key action items that Accenture says should be on IT departments’ plates one year from now, touching on PaaS, big data, converged data, and security: 1. Re-architect the organizational structure to gear it toward data services. 2. Organize active, ongoing discussions with business functions about new data services needed. 3. Run data platform trials that leverage structured and unstructured data—with data in the platform and in use by one or more business processes.

4. Compile a firm list of context-based services that is regularly updated as circumstances change—and that forms the basis of discussion with the business side in order to drive the platform for context across the enterprise. 5. Form a pilot team that blends user experience specialists with data scientists to experiment with new contextual data services. 6. Create a list of other business processes that can begin to leverage data in the platform. 7. Forge closer partnerships with the business to allow blended teams with fast-turn experiments in mind. 8. Demonstrate the organizational structures and skill sets that will enable IT to evaluate and work with platform providers much as it works with conventional outsourcing services. 9. Establish processes that make robust, flexible security a priority when IT systems are being designed and developed. 10. Create clear orchestration roles that specify how IT works with service providers.

Summary Accenture compiles the top 5 forces reshaping IT, and what should be done about them within the next 12 months.

Description Accenture Technology Labs just released its Technology Vision 2012 forecast, which identifies emerging IT developments — based on input from the Labs’ scientists, architects, and engineers, as well as crowdsourced perspectives from across the industry.

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