Why the IT Crowd is no longer funny
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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According to research commissioned by Microsoft and which landed in my mailbox this afternoon, it would seem that the vision of IT within the business as represented by the hugely funny IT Crowd sitcom is not that far from the truth. Indeed, the report suggests that the bigger the company the less of a strategic asset IT becomes, or at least the perception of that asset becomes. Only 47% of businesses have IT representation at board level with this number falling to 44% in businesses with more than 1000 employees. Now that really is not funny at all.
The sad thing is that it won’t just be the IT department which is wearing a frown if something does not happen to change this culture of technological and corporate disharmony. After all, 83% of IT Directors are happy to acknowledge that application performance problems will directly impact upon the performance of the business as a whole, and 76% that delays in bringing new applications into the business causes equally serious bottom line difficulties.
The meagre 37% of large enterprise citing that a better alignment, and less discord, between business and IT is a key priority for current IT strategy would seem to provide cold comfort when you consider that pretty much everyone agrees this just isn’t happening in the real world.
Matthew Dunstan, application platform group manager at Microsoft UK, reckons that “the bridges that exist between business and IT form a critical framework for the strategic success of a company.
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