Recent developments in the IT solutions available to businesses are nothing short of revolutionary, claims one technology expert.
Dr Mark Thompson of the Cambridge Judge Business School believes that the capabilities offered by new computer-based solutions are making running a successful company easier and more enjoyable than ever before.
He also feels that processes can be chopped up into separate sections easily so that a firm that wishes to simplify its operations to reduce its capital expenditure but is wary of outsourcing all of its systems can just focus on certain areas while keeping the remainder in house.
“What is now happening is a little bit of a quiet revolution,” Dr Thompson stated.
“What effectively has happened is that IT has become able to ramp traditional vertically integrated business logic, so stuff that really couldn’t be separated out before, in common standards that introduce a dynamic a little bit more like open source.
“Open source guys can swap code around, and the code adheres to common standards. Everything works with everything else.”
Dr Thompson certainly has experience in dealing with IT issues at a high level. Between 2007 and 2008 he was the senior technology adviser to the then shadow cabinet under current chancellor George Osborne.
During that time he delivered an influential report proposing widespread adoption of open standards in government IT that has since become policy.
He is currently advising the Cabinet Office in the development of an educational programme for senior policymakers and civil servants to support implementation of these schemes.
A current IT project set to be undertaken by the government is the creation of a series of public databases.
These databases, which will cost somewhere in the region of £5 billion to create, will inform the public on things such as healthcare provisions, travel and weather.
Source:http://www.ihotdesk.com/article/801276291/IT-developments-are-revolutionary
