{"id":58723,"date":"2023-04-27T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/?post_type=blog&p=58723"},"modified":"2024-07-29T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T10:38:40","slug":"enterprise-it-transformation-how-to-close-the-gap-between-it-and-business-functions","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/enterprise-it-transformation-how-to-close-the-gap-between-it-and-business-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise IT Transformation: How to Close the Gap Between IT and Business Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"
Once upon a time, there was a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate (whose name you probably know).<\/p>\n
To stay competitive, the company duly increased its IT department headcount, purchased new IT systems, and invested in proprietary software development.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s IT function kept growing larger and more complex.<\/p>\n
However, IT was bringing increasingly less value to the business, as the IT department could just barely keep up with so many IT systems, policies, and compliance requirements.<\/p>\n
The IT headcount kept getting bigger and bigger, as the IT department needed to support unnecessary assets.<\/p>\n
At the same time, revenue and operational efficiency hardly budged.<\/p>\n
Why? Because the company\u2019s IT function didn\u2019t proactively solve end users\u2019 issues. Instead, IT was working for itself and generated new problems as technologies aged and operational processes grew redundant.<\/p>\n
The above story isn\u2019t unique.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t