Meta IT: Strategy framework for change

IT ought to be, in the words of Tony Bishop, a firm-wide service and infrastructure fabric that collaborates with business units to respond rapidly, innovatively, and cost effectively to changing market conditions.

Hence the phrase Meta-IT, which Bishop explains as representing a new IT management framework and governance packaged into a set of results-oriented best practices.

"Traditional IT strategy and governance models fail because they do not take into account the changing needs of the markets in which businesses operate and the new technologies that are now available to expedite and facilitate IT management," Bishop explains in this Real-time Enterprise post. "The strategy to fill this void is the concept of a meta-IT model in which IT is positioned as complementary to other strategies of attaining greater market agility."

Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 22, 2008 11:25 AM