IT:

A Changing
Landscape

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 Evolution of IT

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 1960s ...

Scientific Applications
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 1970s ...

Engineering Applications
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 1980s ...

Office and Business Process Automation

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 “Islands of Automation”
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 The birth of

EDP Department

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 1990s ...

BPR
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 1990s ...

Client Server Architecture

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 1990s ...

ERP
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 The birth of

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 The IT Department is Born...

Business Analysts ERP Consultants Programmers

Database Admin HW & NW Engineers

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 And Some Grow Up...

Business Analysts ERP Consultants Programmers

Database Admin
HW & NW Engineers
…into a Separate Business or Company
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 IT...The Vital but Weak Link

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 Y2K ...

Emergence of India as IT Superpower

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 Chasing the IT Dream ...

Polarisation of Talent and Skill…

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 IT ... Challenges in 2000

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 Consumerism in IT ...

Personal Computer : Now a Consumer Durable

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 Democracy... Catalysed by IT

Internet : The World’s Largest Ungoverned Space

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 Consumerism in IT ...

Connectivity: Anytime, Anywhere, High Speed

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 Consumerism in IT ...

Mobility
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 Freedom... Catalysed by IT

Where Knowledge is Free …

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 Transformation of “IT”...

Computation Consumer
Machine Product

Business Medium of
Process Edutainment
Automation
Tool

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 IT: 2010

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 “The Long Tail” ...

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 “The Long Tail” ...

• High transaction
volume
• Operational
Efficiency
• Internally
Focused

• Niche
• High Value
• Strategic
• Externally Focused
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 “The Long Tail” ...

ERP CRM SRM BI Industry

Solutions

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 Interoperability ...

What Happens to ERP Theory of Integration?

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 Service Oriented Architecture (SoA) ...

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 Open Source ...

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 Cloud...

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 IaaS, SaaS, PaaS...

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 Analytics...

In God We Trust, Rest All Bring Data

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 Web 2.0...
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Collective
Intelligence

Published content ,
“read only”
User generated
content ,
“read –write”

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 Social...

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 Social...

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 Crowd Sourcing...

Open Innovation, Co-creation, Co-Consumption

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 Mobile...

The Buzzword around SMAC!

The Child is the Father of Man … Literally…
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 BYOD...

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 IT: Today

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 Standing on a Dynamic Inflection Point...

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 End of Planned Obsolescence...

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 Process Vs. People...

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 In-house Vs. Outsourced...

At a Cross Road?
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 Disruptive Technology ...

The End of “Process”?

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 IT Department Today ...

A Falling Structure?
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 Future of IT:
IT IS Business!

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 IT IS Marketing!...

Digital Marketing
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 IT IS Health!...

Telemedicine
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 IT IS Education!...

My Name is Khan … and I am a Teacher!

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 IT IS Manufacturing!...

3D Printing

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 IT IS Governance!...

IT Makes Government, Fells Government

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 IT IS Currency!...

The End of Nation State?

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 IT IS Business!...
168 years $92B

122 years $173B

103 years $240B

59 years $100B

39 years $234B

38 years $416B

16 years $268B

10 years $63B

5 years $19B*

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 IT: Tomorrow

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 IT of Tomorrow...

From a Department to a “Gene”!

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Redefining Managerial and Technical Roles...
Technical Technical
Component Management Component
in Job Component in in Job
Job

Management
Component in
Job

Seniority Seniority

Old Paradigm New Paradigm

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 The Re-birth of

CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER

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