First published: July 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm
To reach the future of business operations, the need to transform existing practices and capabilities. In particular, IT is necessary to build agility and productivity in future operations.
The IT organization’s capabilities must align with the way people actually do the work. Organizations need to have the flexibility to innovate as a team when they finish work, rather than waiting for allocated resources.
This means that IT must be able to “see” their environments as the organizations do. However, this also means that IT must have some level of understanding of their environment in order to make appropriate decisions and allocate resources.
For example, if a business unit has started using a new application which requires specific security requirements, IT should understand these requirements and build them into their infrastructure.
Transforming these existing capabilities involves digital company transformation on the processes and capabilities through developing new skill sets in line with current technologies or adapting current technologies into new operations technology.
This requires IT professionals not only to have knowledge of current technology but also knowledge of how they can apply that technology across organizational boundaries.
How IT Will Affect the Future of Business Operations
IT is playing a key role in supporting the future of business operations by enabling the agility and productivity necessary to deliver results. It is not just a technology but an approach to how IT works, what capabilities it can provide, and how they can use it.
IT’s influence on the future of business operations is clear, but the way in which IT supports business operations is not as clear. There are several ways in which IT can help with this, and we outline these below:
Agility and Productivity
IT plays a key role in supporting the future of business operations technology by enabling agility and productivity. It enables agile organizations to react quickly to changes in work demands, resources or priorities.
The ability to be able to adapt rapidly makes organizations more efficient and responsive than those that cannot.
The capability for IT professionals to respond quickly also means that they can provide real-time support for users as well as being able to deliver better user experiences through new applications or better solutions for legacy systems.
Agility is critical for any organization but is particularly important when responding to change or crisis situations such as natural disasters or political unrest. However, agility does not come without its challenges.
It requires a significant amount of organizational agility to ensure that all stakeholders are on the same page. The term IT is not just about technology but an approach to how IT works, what capabilities it can provide, and how they can use it.
It is not just about technology, but how we integrate technology into existing business processes and how this can enable those processes to work more effectively.
New Technologies
IT plays a key role in supporting the future of business operations by enabling new technologies. This means that IT is providing technology that is unique, and this enables new ways of working.
How we do work has changed significantly over the last decade. It has become more specialized, more collaborative and more reliant on technology than ever before.
IT must provide technology that can enable these changes and adapts to meet the needs of different types of organizations.
They must also be able to deliver new capabilities and they can use technologies across organizational boundaries, such as when moving resources between divisions or functions within an organization.
IT also plays a key role in supporting the future of business operations by enabling innovative ideas.
This means that IT can provide a platform for these ideas to be a reality as well as providing real-time support for innovators who need help with their ideas.
Enabling Collaboration
IT plays a key role in supporting the future of business operations by enabling collaboration across organizational boundaries. This means IT enables teams within an organization to work together as part of operations projects and enable cross-functional teams to work together as part of a single process.
IT is not just a technology but an approach to how IT works, what capabilities it can provide, and how we can use it.
They enable collaborative working to happen across organizational boundaries by enabling information sharing and the ability to work together as a team, regardless of location or department.
IT professionals must also be able to deliver new digital capabilities and technologies across organizational boundaries, such as when moving resources between divisions or functions within an organization.
IT also plays a key role in supporting the future of business operations by enabling innovative ideas.
This means that IT can provide a platform for these ideas to be a reality as well as provide real-time support for innovators.
Information Sharing
IT plays a key role in supporting the future of business operations by enabling information sharing across organizational boundaries. This means IT enables teams within an organization to work together as part of a single process and enable cross-functional teams to work together as part of a single process.
It also enables teams across an organization to share information so that people know what is happening across the whole organization, even if they are not part of the team.
Professionals in IT must also be able to deliver new capabilities and technologies, such as when moving resources between divisions or functions within an organization.
IT also plays a key role in supporting the future of business operations by enabling innovative ideas and automation strategy.
This means that IT can provide real-time support for innovators who need help with their ideas and ensure they take the ideas forward quickly when appropriate.
Read other related articles about business operations and more interesting topics on WorkDeputy blog!
