IT department facing extinction, says Capgemini CTO
Carl Bate, Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini discusses on Computer Weekly's podcast how emerging trends will mark the end of the IT department.
28 May 2008
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With Google expanding its business products and services and Microsoft looking to SaaS as the future, Carl talks to on the Computer Weekly podcast on how the IT department in its current format will die.
Carl discusses the trends that he believes are changing the IT department: “almost
everybody is connected to the internet, that workers and IT equipement are inseperable
and that businesses are increasingly moving towards IT services rather than products.”
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Carl blends a wealth of expertise covering strategy and implementation with cross-industry experience to help clients define and realise strategies. Using his expertise, Carl has acted as an advisor, CIO and CTO for several organisations.
Carl contributues to Capgemini’s CTO blog - Carl’s personal entries are here.
Carl is co-author of the book ‘Lost in Translation’ - a handbook designed to offer new, practical insights to business and technology leaders seeking to make a step-change difference in addressing the ‘business/IT divide’ – www.LiThandbook.com/
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