It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog. I hope to post much more frequently. I’ve recently been working with a major consulting firm moving companies from local IT to Cloud. We work with and under the authority of senior C-Level executives and not IT management. In many cases we are phasing out local IT organizations.
Today’s modern IT organizations have lost focus and no longer server the purpose that they were created for. Today, from the CIO to the lowest level of technician IT departments focus on and hire young recent college graduates highly skilled in various technical disciplines, but with virtually no business knowledge or experience. The departments focus on technological innovation and the expense of business problem solving. Many IT employees have no clue what their enterprises actually do or how the business is run.
My associates and I including some very major names in IT innovation have developed a multi-part model that first moves existing legacy systems from local IT to the Cloud and eliminates the many employees that provide systems and technical support. This can save a company millions of dollars.
We also work with corporate management to develop an IT modernization plan that focuses on the current needs and objectives of the enterprise and not on technology.
When I say modernization, I don’t mean converting old COBOL, RPG, PL1, or FORTRAN code to a modern language, or converting green screen applications to web, tablet, or phone based apps, but rather looking at how the old legacy systems meet current business objectives and replacing the old legacy systems with modern business focused solutions to real business problems.
Our focus is to leverage highly skilled business and systems analysts who analyze, define, and solve real business problems. We then contract out the actual development to highly skilled contract labor. Note that this is a much more cost effective solution than traditional in-house IT.
This is particularly true in company’s stuck with old IBM legacy systems (i.e. ZOS mainframes, System i based midrange systems, etc.). We find that many of these companies are stuck with developers to support old systems with legacy skills and which often have to hire additional people to provide modern skill sets often doubling the cost of IT with no direct or measurable return on the investment.
Our model is totally business centric and cost effective. More later.
What a computer system organization should look like!
