Business IT is ‘going through a revolution’Business IT is going through a quiet revolution, with integrated business logic moving towards open source.
This is according to Dr Mark Thompson of the Cambridge Judge Business School, who predicted a future of government IT and any “process-heavy” businesses to be much more integrated, where IT managers can “chop up” pieces of business logic.
“If I can chop up an HR function, a finance function, rather than outsourcing the whole lot what I can do is distinguish between the utility and the commodity elements of that function, the more regular process parts of it, from the riskier parts of it,” he explained.
“That has enormous commercial implication.”
Mr Thompson, a former senior adviser on the adoption of open standards in government IT to UK Shadow Cabinet under George Osborne, is now advising the Cabinet on developing an educational programme for senior policymakers in IT.
This week a Public Administration Select Committee reported that the government is making progress with its IT strategy, but it criticised a lack of competition between suppliers over IT contracts.
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