Technologies for change

It may not be what many CIOs would have imagined, but a revolution is taking place in the IT field. The changes involve the increased need for compliance and minimizing risk on all fronts, new business pressures to reduce costs and requirements to actively support business competitiveness.

It also involves the move away from IT skill groups and professional backgrounds, toward a more customer-centric model. These and other changes still come to mean CIOs must understand the shifts, make constant adjustments, and be ready to adopt new technologies. According to CIOupdate.com, "There are a number of game-changing technologies, most conspicuously CMDB systems..." that can affect the IT workplace. The list also includes Application Dependency Mapping (ADM) capabilities that provide "dynamic insights into where your application services reside across the infrastructure and how configuration changes are likely to impact them."

To read more about these trends:
- see this CIOupdate.com article