A Seismic Change in IT. Again
Yes, it is mobile ofcourse! As being a very lazy blogger, my last blog was 2 years ago. It was upon passing of Steve Jobs. He had a very strong influence on me to become an entrepreneur. And his vision has always inspired me. So I wanted to share my personal thoughts and respect for him.It seems I can only blog when truly important things happen like when Steve passed away. And it seems proper to re-think on the mobile revolution he started with iphone on his 2. anniversary.
Now, the mobile revolution is much pervasive and stronger than iphone and Apple itself. With Android's ever increasing share, ipads and other tablets, smart mobile is becoming the primary device for our daily, digitised-than-ever, life. These devices are also replacing notebooks and becoming primary channels for information access.
And we are only at the beginning of this seismic change. IT at every company and industry will be transformed to adapt these new devices and new channels. I can not think of any industry that will be immune to this change. The impact of mobile revolution will be huge on vendors, service providers, internal IT teams, and talent pool.
But this is not news any more! Is it? This year we witnessed countless proofs for this change. 2013 is the year that IT in general realised and accepted the mobile revolution and began acting accordingly.
We will see the change sweeping into internal IT projects, we will witness mobile first approach in most traditional business cases. Probably the change will start from consumer/customer touch points, since mobile revolution is mostly driven by consumer demand and adoption. Employees with the help of BYOD policies will drive the change in internal IT systems and applications.
So where is the future going? What are the immediate consequences? There are several things already happening;
- Talent shortage. Every company is trying to find and build mobile teams. But there are not that many mobile developers out there.
- Increasing outsourcing for mobile projects. As a consequence of talent shift, IT will increasingly outsource mobile projects.
- Application development is changing from web centric to app centric again. One of the consequences of mobile devices that they bring back client-server to IT again. However this time the underlying architecture is modernized and mostly inspiring from web architecture.
- Innovative IT is needed again. After years of prioritizing cost cutting, operation and maintanence oriented IT policies, there is an opportunity for IT to renovate most of the application infrastructure while re-developing them for mobile world. Or they can build brand new, more contextual applications and services utilizing mobile's intrinsic strengths (location, always-on, sensors etc.)
The road ahead is definetely an exciting one with full of opportunities. I am glad that I started my company and working on tech for making mobile transformation easy and provide tools for businesses to help them get most out of new mobile opportunities.
Thank you Steve! For starting this revolution in our industry, that will lead to a better world.
Labels: Mobile
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