Comments on: The IT Department and SaaS: When Your 15 Minutes Are Up…? http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/13/the-it-department-and-saas-when-your-15-minutes-are-up/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Tue, 29 May 2012 14:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: JD http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/13/the-it-department-and-saas-when-your-15-minutes-are-up/#comment-1240 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:24:40 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/13/the-it-department-and-saas-when-your-15-minutes-are-up/#comment-1240 Perhaps “IT Department” should not be generalized and instead look at the various parts of IT such as IT infrastructure and IT (in-house) software development. I think the latter will definitely be impacted more by SaaS than the infrasture folks.

]]> By: Ric http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/13/the-it-department-and-saas-when-your-15-minutes-are-up/#comment-1239 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:55:51 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/13/the-it-department-and-saas-when-your-15-minutes-are-up/#comment-1239 The IT department can only provide value by being contrarian – as the ReadWriteWeb post suggests: "f there is no variation, then there is no advantage" – but it takes a willingness to move away from "safe", homogeneous. packaged applications. Identify what your business "does" – and I believe that most value is derived from ignoring packages in that area and developing your own. This makes me unfashionable (no more so than at my own place of work) and unpopular … but it's where the leverage is.

The other source of value for an IT department is to be an enabler of the business finding and using the "other" 70% of its information – the stuff locked in people's heads.

]]> By: links for 2007-04-14 » SDLC Blog http://redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/13/the-it-department-and-saas-when-your-15-minutes-are-up/#comment-1238 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:35:26 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/13/the-it-department-and-saas-when-your-15-minutes-are-up/#comment-1238 […] People Over Process » Blog Archive » The IT Department and SaaS: When Your 15 Minutes Are Up…? does the IT department’s role get reduced to just desktop and network management? (tags: IT departmet work culture) […]

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