How IT can meet the challenge of delivering real business value in rapidly changing environments

When Rackspace is working with executives who are responsible for the IT infrastructure, we hear a lot about what’s happening in your world. In recent years, there’s been a major shift in the demands that business stakeholders are placing upon IT. In this interactive session Rackspace will share our findings from conversations with your peers from across a wide range of industries.

In today’s digitally disrupted market the business is expecting IT to create strategic value by providing technology and applications that enable changing business models—and to do so with speed and agility.

How is IT to respond to these changing needs?

How can IT engage with business leaders and help deliver on their objectives?.

Takeaways:

- Understand the key areas Enterprises need to address to provide to provide ‘IT at the speed of business’, which in many cases can more easily and cost effectively be provided with assistance from a 3rd party specialist.

- Having access to new technologies and skills allow IT to free up key technical staff, reallocate resources and provide increased focus on innovation and growth.

- Remove the temptation for business leaders to establish Shadow IT by treating the problem, not the symptom