Run IT as a responsive business, beat the cloud vendors at their own game

The days of information technology departments as cost centers are fading fast. These days, IT is either playing a role as full partner in growth (ideally with the CIO on the executive committee), or as a potentially profitable business-within-a-business that is competitively selling and supporting its services to internal and external customers. Or, in same cases, IT has become the business — or the business has become IT — as enterprises re-align themselves around data and online services.

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