Innovation in a company’s information systems is a cyclical and, at the same time, contradictory process. While at one end of the process the implementation of new systems brings practicality and agility to the organization’s business challenges, at the other, the implementation of successive levels of technological complexity ends up tying down CIOs and repressing the sector’s multiple creative possibilities.
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Combating so-called application silos in your IT systems
One of the epicenters of the technological chaos that builds up in an organization over years rests on the habit of believing in the “the more, the better” theory, even when there is no logic in the sum of the parts. In other words: when companies start working with distinct technologies, based on different IT infrastructures, with hardwares and Cloud Computing systems that do not communicate with each other, the most likely result is the creation of a fragmented, chaotic, and absolutely non-functional environment.
Thus, a recommendation for IT analysts, CIOs, and other information technology professionals is to seek the development of solutions that cover not only the companies’ ERP systems, but also manage to encompass areas such as Human Resources, Purchasing, Marketing, and the Strategic Core, avoiding so-called “application silos”, true gaps in the companies’ IT systems.
Simplify your company’s IT project into tangible objectives
The growing importance of IT professionals in increasing companies’ profit margins has been transfiguring the role of these professionals within organizations. Formerly of a purely technical profile, it is increasingly common to find managers looking for IT professionals with a sharp business vision, capable of selecting priorities and thinking about the company from a macro perspective, organizing projects aimed at cost reduction and increased productivity.
Therefore, the development of IT projects and systems focused on priority areas of the company, which are more sensitive to offering improvements in their business processes, should be the major target to be achieved by these specialists. It is, once again, the reduction of IT complexity in the name of achieving practical objectives!
IT Complexity and Chaos Theory: do not lose focus on customization
Chaos Theory, developed by American meteorologist Edward Lorenz in the 1960s, suggests that complex systems inherently exhibit chaotic behavior, something that does not necessarily represent an absence of order, but rather the presence of an order of intense complexity, difficult to translate in a trivial way.
Information systems are developed to simplify business processes in an organization, hence the importance of not losing focus on developing projects that offer competitive advantage to the company, differentiating it from other competitors (customization), but without letting this objective get lost in an infinity of disconnected projects.
Streamlining wordy IT projects and combating the logic of complexity in the name of customization is another major challenge for CIOs and IT analysts.
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