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Effective demand management is much less a matter of shiny new business analysis tools and techniques as applying existing ones in a way that allows us to "get a grip" -- to examine demand for IT in a critical yet innovative way while balancing it with an organization's capability for meeting that demand. The question, "How applicable is demand management to an agile world?" was one that I kept finding myself faced with.
On the shared services panel at the 2010 Cutter Summit , I turned out to be a minority of one in saying that central and local IT departments can, and should, exist in harmony.
Depending on whom you listen to, cloud computing is either the greatest thing since sliced bread, it's what the vendor has always been doing anyway, or it's an unprecedented threat to the integrity of your operations. Making sourcing decisions based on these messages is not only difficult, it is dangerous.
Change is happening fast. While many of us thought that cloud computing would take longer to become established than it has, that virtualization would virtualize at its own pace, and that strategic sourcing would stay tactical before it became strategic (in a decade or so), we're finding now that IT is moving at an unprecedented pace.
There was word last week that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was finally going to drop the color-coded terrorism alert system, also known as the Homeland Security Advisory System. This comes after more than five years of consideration of alternatives to the warning system by DHS and two administrations, which was inaugurated in 2002.
Predicting the Year Ahead
We asked our Cutter experts to give predictions on upcoming trends for 2011 and beyond. Here's what they had to say ...
In last week's Advisor ("IT's Eternal Return: Circular Reference?